The NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, James Appathurai, has urged restraint to the sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“Concerned by reports about an Armenian helicopter being shot down by Azerbaijani forces. Whatever the circumstances of the incident, both sides should remain calm and pursue a diplomatic resolution,” the NATO official wrote in his Facebook account.
A Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Air Force helicopter was shot down on Wednesday, and as a result of ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces. The helicopter was downed during a training flight in the airspace of the eastern sector of the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact. As a result, three pilots were killed: The commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, and Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan.
