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YEREVAN. – The Ministry of Defense (MOD) actions, in terms of the Armenian helicopter which Azerbaijan had downed, were flawless, and a great job was done.

Opposition MP, former Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanyan told the above-said to reporters on Thursday.

As for the respective work by the Armenian MFA, the ex-FM stressed that diplomats do lot more work behind the scenes than it is announced, and that it is not mandatory for all the details to be disclosed.

Arzumanyan added that the subtext of the international community’s respective announcements clearly showed to whom its call was made, and that it would not have been right for the international community to be biased.

“We [, the Armenian side,] would have liked for the international community to condemn Azerbaijan, [and] make [Azerbaijan President Ilham] Aliyev stand before the [International] Court of [Justice of] The Hague. But this is not the ‘sorrow and pain’ of the international community; the important [thing] is to respond forthwith,” the opposition MP noted.

Arzumanyan also said that an investigation will be conducted into this incident, all circumstances will be ascertained, and if there are guilty, they will be punished.

In his words, even though any shortcoming is possible, it is clear that Azerbaijan’s reaction was disproportionate, since the helicopter was not armed and it posed no threat.

As per Alexander Arzumanyan, it is the Armenian MOD which must decide how to retaliate and when.

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (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 were killed: the commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, as well as Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan.

The adversary, on the other hand, was firing intensive shots toward the crash site, thus, not allowing access to the area.

But the remains of these three military servicemen plus some necessary parts of the chopper were retrieved from the helicopter’s crash site through a special operation by the NKR armed forces. As a result, the Azerbaijanis suffered serious casualties, whereas the Armenian side sustained none.

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