ArmInfo. NATO calls on Armenia and Azerbaijan to return to the negotiating table. Javier Colomina, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, Security Policy and Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, wrote about this in his microblog on Twitter.
"NATO calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces. We deeply regret the loss of life and urge both sides to de-escalate and return to the negotiating table. NATO supports the normalisation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan," he wrote.
On August 3, in the morning, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces fired at the combat positions of the Artsakh Defense Army and the place of permanent deployment of one of the military units, using mortars, grenade launchers and attack UAVs, as a result of which two contract soldiers were killed and 19 soldiers were injured. On August 3, Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan announced a partial military mobilization.