YEREVAN. – An Armenian delegation at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will definitely raise the issue of the helicopter that was shot down by the Azerbaijani armed forces, member of the delegation, MP from Heritage party Tevan Poghosyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“We will definitely raise the issue at the earliest opportunity. All issues regarding actions and behavior of Azerbaijan should be raised,” Poghosyan added.

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 removed from the helicopter’s crash site through a special operation by the NKR armed forces.