YEREVAN. – The First Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia, Davit Tonoyan, on Monday had a telephonic conversation with Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office.
The interlocutors discussed the present-day situation along the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces.
In this connection Tonoyan informed the OSCE official that Armenian military serviceman Sevak Khachatryan (born in 1997) on Sunday sustained a fatal gunshot wound from a bullet fired by the adversary.
The deputy defense minister of Armenia considered the violation of ceasefire to be impermissible, and stressed that all accountability for this fatal incident falls on the Azerbaijani side.
Ambassador Kasprzyk, for his part, expressed concern by what had occurred and the resultant loss of life. And he promised to take steps to avoid further destabilization of the situation.
