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YEREVAN. – Armenia’s opposition Heritage Party Spokesperson Davit Sanasaryan, who is also a member of the opposition “Barev [Hello], Yerevan” faction at the capital city Yerevan Council, is continuing his hunger strike outside the OSCE Office in Yerevan.

Sanasaryan had commenced his hunger strike on Monday, and with a demand for the international community to take concrete actions for the return of the three pilots of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Air Force helicopter which Azerbaijan had shot down.

Even though Sanasaryan says he has no health problems, an ambulance staff is on a 24-hour watch near him (PHOTOS).

“I feel very well; much better than six days ago when I began not to eat food. My [blood] pressure is regulated; I’m grateful to the doctors,” he told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In the hunger striker’s words, however, his demand is not yet met.

“I demand the taking of immediate steps and the exercising of the threat of sanctions [against Azerbaijan]. This matter shall immediately enter the [UN] Security Council, which shall honor the conventions the UN has adopted and take active steps.

In Sanasaryan’s words, if the international community, especially the US, delays expressing a clear position on this matter, a war will be inevitable.

“Azerbaijan is provoking a war, and the international community is joining this provocation,” he stated.

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down an NKR Air Force helicopter on November 12. The chopper was downed during a training flight, and it crashed very close to the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact. As a result, three pilots are believed to have been killed: the commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, as well as Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan. There were no weapons in the chopper. The adversary, on the other hand, continues to fire intensive shots toward the crash site, thus, not allowing access to the area.

Photos by Arsen Sargsyan/NEWS.am

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