On May 5 press conference of Lieutenant-General Levon Mnatsakanyan – Defense Minister, Defense Army Commander of the Republic of Artsakh, was held in Stepanakert.
Azerbaijan had to seek Moscow’s mediation with the request to establish a ceasefire. Defense Minister
STEPANAKERT, MAY 5, ARTSAKHPRESS: At the start of this press conference, Mnatsakanyan presented the 25-year history of the defense army of the Republic of Artsakh.
Subsequently, he reflected on the military aggression which Azerbaijan had unleashed against Nagorno-Karabakh, in April of the year past. In this connection, he noted that even though the adversary had used its entire arsenal during this large-scale attack, the Artsakh defense army had managed to foil all plans by Azerbaijan, and therefore, just like in May 1994, Baku was forced to seek Moscow’s mediation, with a request for establishing ceasefire, also in April 2016.
