Karabakh army capable of ensuring security on front line – NKR minister

Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
17 Mar 05

[Presenter] An OSCE mission held a monitoring today near the
Azerbaijani village of Seysulan [occupied village in Tartar
District]. We obtained information from Artsakh [Nagornyy Karabakh]
that no incidents or truce violations were registered during the
monitoring.

An incident [truce violations] near Seysulan on 7-9 March resulted in
casualties because of the Azerbaijani side’s fault, the Nagornyy
Karabakh Foreign Ministry has confirmed.

Today the Nagornyy Karabakh Defence Ministry submitted a report to the
OSCE mission which said that the Azerbaijani armed forces had opened
fire on the Karabakh troops to get its positions closer to the
positions of the Nagornyy Karabakh defence army.

[Correspondent, over video of trenches] Mr Minister, the news
disseminated recently by media outlets and various official statements
prove that the situation on the contact line is not so quite and at
the same time these news contradict each other. What is going on in
reality?

[Nagornyy Karabakh Defence Minister Lt-Gen Seyran Oganyan, captioned,
shown in trench] True, today the situation on the contact line with
the Azerbaijani Republic is tense. The Azerbaijani side continues
firing our positions. It should be noted that trying to get their
positions closer to the positions of the Karabakh defence army, they
are creating a tough situation on the contact line.

In reality, the tension is being created by the Azerbaijani armed
forces. The Karabakh defence army is taking appropriate measures aimed
at ensuring security. The army’s and units’ combat readiness today is
on the highest level. If there is a need, today we can fulfil our task
to ensure security of our people.