20:36, 6 March 2023

YEREVAN, MARCH 6, ARMENPRESS. Javier Colomina, the special representative of the NATO Secretary General for the Caucasus and Central Asia, referred to the shooting of a police car by the Azerbaijani armed forces and the death of people in Artsakh.

“Very concerned with reports of deadly incident in vicinity of Stepanakert. This incident demonstrates the urgency to find solutions for outstanding issues at the negotiation table. NATO supports the normalisation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan”, ARMENPRESS reports, Colomina wrote.

Three Nagorno Karabakh police officers were killed as a result of an ambush by a sabotage team of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on March 5. The officers of the Passport and Visa Department of the Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh were attacked around 10:00. They were in their service vehicle at the time of the ambush. On March 6, the Russian MoD said in its daily bulletin that the attack was initiated by the Azerbaijani side. Two Azerbaijanis have been also killed, one is injured.