ArmInfo. Armenia's Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan during a telephone conversation with with UK's Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Wendy Morton discussed the situation resulting from the large-scale military aggression initiated by the Azerbaijani leadership against Artsakh.
According to the press service of the RA MFA, Mnatsakanyan drew the attention of his partner to the ongoing violence of the Azerbaijani armed forces against the peaceful civilians, their torture and killings of the Armenian prisoners of war, constant targeting of civilian settlements and infrastructure, as well as on numerous facts of shelling of religious, cultural facilities.
Morton expressed her deep condolences over the civilians killed in the hostilities. The interlocutors pointed to the need to fulfill the ceasefire agreements reached on October 10 and 17. In this context, Mnatsakanyan noted that the violation of these agreements by Azerbaijan once again shows the latter's incapability of respecting its obligations and refusing from the goals to solve the conflict through military means. The Armenian Foreign Minister expressed deep concern that such behavior of Azerbaijan is clearly supported and encouraged by Turkey, which, in turn, is trying to advance its maximalist goals by destabilizing regional security. Mnatsakanyan reaffirmed Armenia's commitment to the exclusively peaceful settlement of the conflict and the establishment of stable and verifiable ceasefire.