Azerbaijan’s attack on the Republic of Armenia: LATEST UPDATES

•  RA President Vahagn Khachaturyan left for Jermuk today to get acquainted with the situation on the ground and the consequences of Azerbaijani aggression. The president had meetings with the head of the Jermuk community Vahagn Arsenyan, and the deputy of the National Assembly Trdat Sargsyan, who were headed by the volunteer squads of the city’s defense. He walked around the city and visited the positions, met with the soldiers who with their heroic actions caused significant damage to the enemy aggressor, and talked with the soldiers on combat duty. [The President’s Staff]
•  Citizens resumed the protest action in front of the Armenian National Assembly building.
• The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense announces that they have a total of 71 victims.

• Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan, who is in the Republic of Armenia together with the Artsakh National Assembly delegation, issued a statement, announcing that at this stage no document related to the status of Artsakh is being discussed.

• On the basis of Armenia’s application regarding the military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia, the urgent session of the UN Security Council took place.

  At the session, the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN, Mher Margaryan, announced that Azerbaijan is planning an attack in the direction of Nakhichevan.

  “There are reliable reports that Azerbaijan is planning another military attack, expanding the scope of aggression, including in the direction of Nakhichevan, in order to implement its illegal ambitions to create an extraterritorial corridor through the sovereign territory of Armenia,” Margaryan said.

The operative group of the CSTO Joint Headquarters arrives in Armenia

The operative group of the CSTO Joint Headquarters has arrived in Armenia.

The group is headed by CSTO Joint Staff Chief, Colonel-General Anatoli Sidorov.  Sidorov was received by RA Defense Minister Suren Papikyan, who presented the situation created as a result of the large-scale aggression carried out by Azerbaijan and presented the issues related to the upcoming monitoring.
The minister expressed hope that the group will carry out effective work and submit a detailed and accurate report on the operational situation to the CSTO Collective Security Council.

In the upcoming days, the operative group will perform appropriate work in the main headquarters of the RA Armed Forces and in the areas of combat operations.

Other News

• Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan discussed the situation in the region during a telephone conversation.

• On September 15, Defense Minister Suren Papikyan received Toivo Klaar, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Georgia crisis.

• We expect the EU and the international community to take appropriate political measures, as a result of which the Azerbaijani troops will liberate the occupied part of the territory of Armenia and return to their exit positions of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border as of May 12, 2021, RA Ambassador-at-Large Edmon Marukyan wrote on his Facebook page.