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Following the Geneva summit on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan stated that no specific arrangements had been made about the settlement options while presidents agreed to take additional steps to reduce tensions on the Line of Contact. Three days after the summit, an Armenia soldier Tigran Khacharyan, born in 1998, was shot dead by Azerbaijani sniper at a military post of the Artsakh Defense Army.   

Earlier today, the Artsakh Army reported in its weekly bulletin that Azerbaijani forces fired more than 2300 shots towards the Armenian positions from 15 to 21 October at the Line of Contact between Artsakh And Azerbaijan.

Panorama.am turned to the Artsakh President’s spokesperson Davit Babayan to comment on the recent developments in the light of the Azerbaijani practice of backpedaling on reached arrangements.
In the face of Azerbaijan, the Armenian side is dealing with a terrorist state, Babayan insisted.

“Such actions are characteristic of Azerbaijan that once again demonstrates the need to reconsider the mechanisms of holding Azerbaijan accountable. I do not suggest that the Genevan meeting was useless, and there is no need to organize such meetings. Quite the opposite, the meetings should take place. However, those summits cannot be viewed for the final settlement of the conflict. While the settlement itself is not feasible in the coming future, maintaining the peace and stability in the region seems a more realistic and important target,” Babayan said.

Asked whether new approaches to the negotiations are discussed considering the Azerbaijani long-practiced tactic of shooting at the border ahead and in the aftermath of serious talks, Babayan noted: “Different approaches should undoubtedly be taken into consideration. Yet it is not an easy task to deal with an adversary sharing a terrorist mentality. That makes the Artsakh conflict as one of the most complex one in the world.”