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YEREVAN. – France’s new Ambassador to Armenia, Jean-François Charpentier, has issued a statement with respect to the fate of the three crew members of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Air Force helicopter which Azerbaijan had shot down recently.

“France, as a[n] [OSCE] Minsk Group co-chairing country, wished, from the humanitarian point of view, that the remains of the three pilots of the downed helicopter to be handed over to Armenia. France will do everything to make this return possible,” the French ambassador noted in his statement.

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.

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