23:58, 1 January 2015

NKR’s authorities report calm situation on contact line on New Year night

The New Year gifts to the soldiers in the front line and in combat troops prepared by the government and socially active members from all the regions of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. December 31, 2014. Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for the "Caucasian Knot"

There were quite a few violations of the ceasefire on the contact line in Karabakh on December 31, 2014, and at night on January 1, 2015; and the overall situation can be treated as calm, the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported.

According to Senor Asratyan, the head of the press service, the whole day of December 31, 2014, the situation on the entire contact line was calm. "The relative calm during the day is a temporary phenomenon; therefore, we have no illusions,” said Asratyan.

"In general, the passing year was very tense. The number of ceasefire violations and attempts of enemy’s sabotage penetration have went up threefold; therefore, regardless of holidays or working days, the army is always in readiness," Colonel Djalal Arutyunyan from the NKR’s Defence Army told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Alvard Grigoryan

Source: CK correspondent