YEREVAN. – In an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am, Armenia’s Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan corroborated that the three Armenian conscripts, who had received gunshot wounds at Armenia’s Movses-Aygepar road section in the late evening hours of April 26, had died as a result of an Azerbaijani diversion operation.

“They [i.e., the Azerbaijanis] showed yet again that they have violated numerous times the principles around which we have reached agreements, specifically the principle of non-use of force. But these activities of theirs will never yield any benefit, because we only see the negotiation process in our relations,” Ohanyan noted.     

In the Minister’s words, the negotiation process must be conducted solely under peaceful conditions, without the use of force, and by making use of today’s international standards for conflict resolution.  

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an Azerbaijani diversion group had fired shots at a VAZ 2107, at Armenia’s Movses-Aygepar road section on April 26. There were four Armenian military servicemen in the vehicle, and three of them had died as a result.