YEREVAN. – The Armenian side has always been in favor of investigating the incidents at the line of contact of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Minister of Defense of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan told reporters, prior to Thursday’s regular Cabinet session.

He noted this commenting on the proposal by the FMs of the three Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group Co-Chair countries (Russia, US, and France), with respect to the introduction of such mechanisms.

“I believe the first precondition for achieving success in the negotiation process is the creation of trust mechanisms, which should be formed in two directions: refraining from all kinds of violations, and introducing international investigative mechanisms; in the recent talks [that were conducted Monday in Vienna], it seemed the word was about this,” Ohanyan noted. “The President of Armenia has repeatedly said that we [i.e. the Armenian side] support the introduction of these mechanisms. Let’s see how the opposite side [i.e. Azerbaijan] will treat this.

“The defense ministries of Armenia and the NKR [i.e. the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh)] have held similar events numerous times. They have stopped firing unilaterally and completely, also conducted investigations of incidents, presenting their results to the international community.”