BAKO SAHAKYAN MEETS HEADS OF POWER STRUCTURES

Bako Sahakyan, President of the self declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has met with senior officials of security and law enforcement bodies to review their work for 2011 and plan for 2012.

In the meantime Azerbaijani sources have reported that this morning there were further violations of the cease fire on the line seperating Armenian and Azerbaijani forces around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence stated that "On February 1, Armenians fired on the positions of Azerbaijani Army from the occupied areas in uplands of Azerbaijan’s Khojavand region at 02.15-02.30. They also fired on the positions of Azerbaijani Army in Kamarli village of Azerbaijan’s Gazakh region from Berdavan village of Armenia’s Noyenberyan region at 03.50-04.10." Both sides regularly accuse each other of cease fire violations.

source: commonspace.eu

photo: The president of the self declared Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan with heads of power structures in Stepanakert on 31 January 2012. (picture courtesy of www.president.nkr.am

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