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If Azerbaijan's military actions take on an extensive scale, Armenia will recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, President Serzh Sargsyan said Monday at his meeting in Yerevan with the ambassadors of the OSCE member countries.

Sargsyan said further escalation of the hostilities at the Karabakh conflict zone can lead to unpredictable and irreversible consequences, even a full-scale war, which will impact the security and stability of not solely the South Caucasus, but also of the European region.

The President said Azerbaijan misleads the international community by stating that it is terminating its military actions and starting strengthening the defense of “liberated territories.”

“I assure you that the Azerbaijanis have not ‘liberated’ any territory,” Sargsyan noted, stressing that with this, Azerbaijan attempts to create prerequisites for concealing the military actions it has unleashed and their further continuation.

The President said the international community's calls for a ceasefire should be directed at Azerbaijan, the specific addressee, which provoked military actions.

Later in the day, President Serzh Sargsyan paid a visit to the soldiers who were wounded in the hostilities.

Even though Azerbaijan claims that it has ceased hostilities, the recently released footage shows quite the opposite, as Armenian soldiers have downed an Azerbaijani helicopter within Karabakh territory.

Military actions throughout the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone continued on Tuesday. Azerbaijan opened fire, shelled, and launched missiles at Armenian settlements.

Hundreds of Karabakh residents bid their last farewell to 12 year-old boy, Vaghinak Grigoryan, the first civilian victim of the most recent and ongoing Azerbaijani aggression.

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