Defense Minister meets new Commander of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno Karabakh, calls for efforts to lift blockade

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YEREVAN, APRIL 28, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Defense of Armenia Suren Papikyan held a meeting on April 28 with Colonel-general Alexander Lentsov, the new Commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno Karabakh.

“I welcomed Colonel-general Alexander Lentsov on assuming his new position and wished him successes during the peacekeeping mission. We discussed the operative situation and existing problems around Nagorno Karabakh and in the area of responsibility of the peacekeeping contingent and a number of issues aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the Russian peacekeeping mission in Nagorno Karabakh. I emphasized the need for steady implementation of all terms of the 9 November 2020 trilateral statement and attached importance to efforts aimed at swiftly lifting the blockade of the Lachin Corridor,” Papikyan said on social media.

The Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin, military attaché Colonel Igor Shcherbakov, and the former Commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno Karabakh Major-general Andrei Volkov attended the meeting.

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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS