NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONSIDERING PLANTING MINES TO SHUT ITSELF OFF FROM AZERBAIJAN – MINISTER

Interfax, Russia
July 17 2014

YEREVAN. July 17

Nagorno-Karabakh is likely to plant mines on roads linking its
northern district of Karvachar to Azerbaijan after the arrest in the
enclave early this week of a group of Azeris on suspicion of sabotage,
according to Armenian Defense Minister Seiran Ohanian.

On July 12, a major in the Armenian Army was killed in Nagorno-Karabakh
in trying to detain one of the alleged saboteurs, and a woman was
wounded in the head and taken to the hospital in Yerevan.

On July 14, the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry said the alleged
saboteurs had been arrested.

“The Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh is carrying out necessary
measures to find out all possible ways of access to Karvachar from
Azerbaijan, and one of the measures is the planting of mines on those
paths,” Ohanian told an Armenian government meeting on Thursday.

He confirmed that the alleged saboteurs but had been caught.

“The regime of service on the front line has been tightened. The
leadership of the Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh is carrying out
all necessary measures. Necessary work is also being done with the
population of the district,” Ohanian said.

The Nagorno-Karabakh Office of the Prosecutor General launched criminal
action against the alleged saboteurs. Earlier, the Armenian Defense
Ministry told Interfax the detainees did not quality for war prisoner
status and would be prosecuted under Armenian criminal law.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress