NKR FM: NKR Committed to Strengthening of Statehood & Armed Forces

“REMAINING DEVOTED TO EXCEPTIONALLY PEACE SETTLEMENT OF CONFLICT, NKR
WILL CONTINUE STRENGTHENING OF STATEHOOD AND ARMED FORCES OF COUNTRY
IN FUTURE,” STATEMENT OF NKR FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS

YEREVAN, August 9 (Noyan Tapan). “The authorities of the country
consider supporting of a high level of readiness for action of the
troops of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic to be an important condition
for provision of military security of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
and its people, especially in the presence of constant militant
appeals of Azerbaijan for forcilble solution of the Karabakh problem,”
the statement of the Press Service of the NKR Foreign Ministry made in
connection with the statement of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry,
condemning the beginning of military exercises of the NKR Defence Army
says.

According to the statement of the Press Service of NKR Foreign
Ministry, the Defence Army of NKR, which is an important element of
preservation of regional stability, actually, plays the role of a
restraining factor under the conditions of tenseness forced by
Azerbaijan and absence of international peace-making forces in the
zone of the conflict. The Press Service of NKR Foreign Ministry also
declared that “remaining devoted to exceptionally peace settlement of
the conflict the Karabakh side will continue strengthening of the NKR
statehood and its Armed Forces as an importnant structure defending
the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic in order to avoid a new armed aggression by Azerbaijan.”