States News Service
November 13, 2014 Thursday
BREAKAWAY NAGORNO-KARABAKH DISMISSES BAKU’S AIRSPACE WARNING
Authorities in Azerbaijans breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have
dismissed a statement by Baku warning it had declared the airspace
over the territory closed.
David Babayan, deputy chief of staff to the president in the region’s
self-declared government, said that planes were flying over
Nagorno-Karabkh on November 13.
Azerbaijan announced on November 12 that it had closed the airspace
after the Azerbaijani military shot down a helicopter belonging to the
ethnic Armenian-controlled territory’s forces.
Azerbaijan said the helicopter was shot down as it attempted to open
fire on Azerbaijani forces, and that its three crew members were
killed.
The Nagorno-Karabakh “self-defense” forces said the helicopter was on
a training mission, and Armenias Defense Ministry called the incident
an “unprecedented provocation” by Azerbaijan.
Armenian-backed separatists seized the mainly Armenian-populated
Nagorno-Karabakh region and surrounding areas from Azerbaijan during a
war in the early 1990s that killed some 30,000 people and ended wih a
shaky cease-fire in 1994.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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