Even though a ceasefire was reached twenty years ago at the request of Azerbaijan, the adversary’s most recent acts of sabotage on the Line of Contact showed yet again that its objective is to occupy the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and establish control over Karabakh’s entire area.  

NKR Defense Minister and Defense Army Commander Movses Hakobyan stated the aforesaid to reporters. 

As per Hakobyan, Azerbaijan still hopes to occupy Karabakh by blackmailing the OSCE Minsk Group.

“The last twenty years have shown that the Azerbaijani side always grows distant from the OSCE Minsk Group-proposed possible avenues for the pacific settlement of the Karabakh issue,” the NKR defense minister said.

The minister also noted that, in recent years, Azerbaijan has invested large sums in the country’s armed forces, and on the account of its oil, thus proving its intention to resolve the Karabakh issue by force.

“[But] the NKR Defense Army expects a resumption of military operations by Azerbaijan. I wait for war every day, and the [NKR] army’s goal is to be ready for war,” the minister stressed.

Movses Hakobyan added that in response to the arming of the Azerbaijani armed forces, NKR is engaged in the training of soldiers and the modernization of its arsenal.