Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan told The Associated Press on Saturday that the fighting was taking place along the entire “line of control” that separates Nagorno-Karabakh from the rest of Azerbaijan.
In a separate posting on Facebook, he said there were losses on both sides and that an Azerbaijani helicopter was hit.
There was no immediate comment from Azerbaijan authorities.
Nagorno-Karabakh has been controlled by Armenia’s military and local forces since a war ended in 1994. Years of negotiations under the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have brought little progress in resolving the dispute.
[AP - channelone.com]
2/4/16
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