Azerbaijani shooting at Kapan airport "slap in the face" of Armenia`s  premier - MP

ArmInfo. After the 44-day war, when the Azerbaijanis settled on the outskirts of Kapan,  including 100 meters from the Kapan airport, it was already obvious  that the operation of the airport would depend on the mood of the  Azerbaijanis, Tigran Abrahamyan, a member of the opposition faction  With Honor, Parliament of Armenia, wrote as he commented on the  overnight shooting of the Kapan airport. 

"While yesterday Pashinyan smugly landed at Kapan airport and once  again spoke about the start of air transportation, a few hours later,  according to the National Security Service of the Republic of  Armenia, at 04:24 on the night of August 18, an unknown person drove  up in a car to the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, and with on the  territory of Azerbaijan fired shots at the airport. Two bullets  damaged one of the windows and the roof of the airport," the MP  stated. 

In this vein, he drew attention to the fact that the official report  of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia does not  say anything about what actions the Armenian law enforcement agencies  took in response.

The National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia also called  on the Azerbaijanis to conduct a proper investigation into the  incident. But I do not think that the National Security Service is so  naive as to think that the incident was the result of an accident or  amateur performance.

The airport can be safely operated only in those cases when either  the Azerbaijanis are pushed back from their respective positions, or,  in the worst case, when there is such a government in the Republic of  Armenia, in which case the Azerbaijanis will think a hundred times  before going for such a provocation.

By the way, this was both a personal slap in the face and humiliation  to Pashinyan, with whom the Azerbaijanis showed their place to the  Armenian government. It's also a warning, Mr Abrahamyan stated.