Stepanakert: Baku intends to make the peaceful settlement of Karabakh  conflict the hostage of its destructive policy 

ArmInfo.Artsakh MFA spread the information related to the anniversary of ceasefire in Artsakh, after Azerbaijani large-scaled aggression against Naghorno Karabakh.  

"Today is a year since the moment of de-escalation of  military  aggression started by  Azerbaijan against Artsakh to forceful  settlement of Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict. On the night of April 1  to 2 of 2016, roughly violating ceasefire regime, Azerbaijani armed  forces started large-scale attack along the boundary using hard  weaponry, artillery arm and aviation. Only suffering measurable  losses in live force and technique, Azerbaijan was forced to request  Russia to stop military actions on April 5 2016. Accompanied with big  number of humanitarian regional right and military crimes, April  aggression of Azerbaijan became a serious challenge to regional peace  and safety and caused big deal harm to negotiation process on  Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict settlement within mediate efforts of  OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs" NK MFA statement reads.

At that, the department notes that during a year passed from the day  of military actions, co-chairmen made efforts on providing conditions  for total recovery of negotiation process.  Stepanakert stresses that  Artsakh shows support to OSCE MG co-chairs statements on the  necessity to observe in total extent the agreement on ceasefire of  May 12 1994, practical implementation of agreement from February 6  1995 on strengthening the regime of ceasefire, as well as the  implementation reached in Vienna (May 16 2016) and Saint-Petersburg  (June 20 2016), agreements on implementing investigation mechanisms  of incidents and increasing chances of OSCE personal representative's  office.

"Azerbaijan not only rejects these purposes, but also denies any  initiatives directed to rule out the opportunities of military  actions. Moreover, during this period Azerbaijan does not leave the  attempts to transfer logic of confrontation in the sphere of economy,  culture and even human contacts. Demonstrating total unwillingness to  reach talks via peaceful settlement of the conflict, Azerbaijani  authorities threaten to unleash another war. Consequentially  increasing the grade of tense at the contact line of Artsakh and  Azerbaijani armed forces and continuing the policy of confrontation  and enmity, Baku purposefully deepens the distrust between the sides  and tends to make Azerbaijani-Karabakh issue settlement process the  hostage of its  destructive policy and maximalist demands", NK MFA  statement reads.