Armenian and French FMs discuss Nagorno Karabakh

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan had a telephone conversation with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The main topic of the telephone conversation was the summing up of the developments following the ceasefire agreements that were reached with respect to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. 

"Mnatsakanyan and Le Drian stressed the need to implement the agreements reached on an immediate ceasefire and to establish a stable ceasefire maintained by verification mechanisms. The two FMs also exchanged views on the agreement to hold a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday," the statement reads.

The Armenian armed forces committed a large-scale provocation, subjecting the positions of the Azerbaijani army to intensive shelling from large-caliber weapons, mortars, and artillery installations of various calibers in the front-line zone on Sept. 27 at 05:00 (Msk). The command of the Azerbaijani Army decided to launch a counter-offensive operation of Azerbaijani troops along the entire front to suppress the combat activity of the Armenian armed forces and ensure the safety of the civilian population. To date, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts, including the cities of Jabrayil and Fizuli, the city of Zangilan and part of Zangilan district, part of the Gubaldi region, the city of Gubadli, the city of Hadrut and a number of villages in the Khojavend region, the villages of Sugovushan and Talish in the Terter region, as well as the strategically important Murovdag mountain were liberated.