Stepanakert reports new attacks by Azerbaijan
YEREVAN. Sept 25 (Interfax) - The Azerbaijani Armed Forces shelled defense lines of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic early on Friday morning, a source in the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry press service has told Interfax.
"The ceasefire regime was breached about 260 times. The Azerbaijani Armed Forces fired various kinds of small arms, as well as 60mm and 82mm mortars and GPG-7, AGS-17 and SPG-9 grenade launchers. The Azerbaijani side also used a Turkish-made TR-107 multiple rocket launcher," the Defense Ministry of the unrecognized republic said.
"The hostile fire was suppressed," it said.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on Thursday that Esmira Dursunova, a resident of the Kemerli village in the Qazakh district bordering Armenia was injured in an Armenian attack and was taken to the district hospital in a medium serious condition.
In turn, Armenia said that three Armenian civilians were killed and two suffered injuries in a shelling incident in the northeastern Tavush region on Thursday evening.
The Armenian Defense Ministry press service told Interfax the Armenian Armed Forces would take measures to stop Azerbaijani shelling of the Armenian territory.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Friday that soldiers were ordered not to shoot Armenian civilians but military sites were their targets. Baku blamed the Armenian authorities for deploying any military site in a populated locality and the damage civilians may incur in clashes.
Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian said that the Azerbaijani conduct cast doubt on the expediency of Karabakh settlement meetings.
It was reported earlier that the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers were planned to meet in New York. The Armenian newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak wrote with the reference to diplomatic sources that the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents might meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.