The State Department condemned the killing of an Artsakh resident outside of occupied Shushi by Azerbaijani forces, who opened fire on four civilian workers of the Artsakh Water and Sewage Service, killing 22-year-old Martik Yeremyan and injuring the other three.
The Russian Defense Minister on Tuesday confirmed that shots had been fired from the Azerbaijani side, adding that the Russian peacekeeping forces have launched an investigation.
“We condemn the violence that caused the death of an Armenian civilian,” read a statement posted on the Twitter page of the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
“We urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to intensify their engagement including through the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to resolve all outstanding issues related to or resulting from the [Nagorno-Karabakh] conflict,” the statement added.
The United States also called on Armenian and Azerbaijan to expend more efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which the U.S. has said has not been resolved.
“We urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to continue and intensify their engagement, including under the auspices of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, to find comprehensive solutions to all outstanding issues related to or resulting from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” Ned Price, the U.S. State Department spokesman, said in a statement issued late on Monday.
The statement was timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the November 9 agreement that ended military actions in Artsakh, but forces Armenia to surrender territory from Armenia and Artsakh to Azerbaijan.
“We extend our deepest condolences to the families of those killed and injured during the hostilities last year,” said Price. “We call for the return of all remaining detainees, a full accounting of missing persons, the voluntary return of displaced persons to their homes, comprehensive humanitarian de-mining of conflict-affected areas, and access by international humanitarian organizations to those in need.”
Is this the how the so called Russian peacekeepers are keeping the peace and guaranteeing the lives of Armenians? The more lack of reaction from Armenia, Azeris will become bolder in their barbarian acts, as we see. One cannot expect civility from the devil and its non-civilized government with Armenian hating attitude. As they say, Eye for an Eye. Such actions have to be responded with equivalent response. Russia is not in Artsakh for keeping the force but its sole purpose was to have a presence in Artsakh and as usual Russia has proven its intention with its actions which is basically selling arms to Azerbaijan and Turkey, playing the game of pulling Turkey out of NATO towards its side. Russia’s political plans have never changed for over 100 years and even before as proven time and time again. We can’t count on the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Russia in not a non profit organization, Russia should worry about Russia, and Pashinyan and Armenians about Armenia, don’t blame Russia for defending it’s interest.
The only way to put an end to this situation is to spill Azerbaijani blood and do it in massive scale. They need to feel what they felt thirty years ago. They need to feel the Armenian vengeance on their skins. Appeasing this filthy and despicable subhuman enemy is not the way to handle these things. These pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani scums once again need to be taught a lesson they will never forget. The more you give the more they will take. This is the TRUE character of terrorist Turkish tribes. They have been like this for centuries. You need to stand your ground and hit them back and hit them hard. They kill one of our people you kill not one or ten but a hundred of them. You see they don’t care who they target and kill. All Armenians, every single one of our people, are targets for them because their killings of innocent Armenian civilians are symbolic. By killing random Armenians they are targeting our nation as a whole. That is their intention. This is a racist and fascist enemy that must be cut into pieces, crushed and annihilated.
It is because of the inaction and passive approach of an unpatriotic and incompetent former journalist turned prime minister that the enemy conducts himself the way he does and with impunity. The more passive you become the more active they will get. When a wild animal, such as a blood-thirsty wolf or a fox, attacks in the dark of the night and kills members of your herd, you don’t act like in a manner that by sacrificing a few you will be saving the rest just because the wild animal got what it wanted and you close the case. Not at all. What you do is you set a trap and go after that wild animal and don’t give up until you kill or capture that animal. These coward Azerbaijani animals are no different. They act the way they do because our current spineless leaders have created an atmosphere for them to do what they do and get away with it. But I know, without an ounce of doubt, that they act the way they do because they fear the Armenians. They have already felt their vengeful power on their skins. They have a cemetery full of their wild wolves turned into sheep and wiped out by the Armenians. Trust me, they are terrified of the Armenians and that is why they behave the way they do while they can and that because we have a weak leader who has got to go!