“The souls, spirit and strength of our strong ancestors and heroes – King Artashes, Tigran the Great, Ashot Yerkat, Aram Manukyan, Hovhannes Baghramyan, Monte Melkonyan, Vazgen Sargsyan, are with us today. Today Armenians are united more than ever: hundreds of thousands of Armenians are providing these days financial, economic, news, political support to Armenia and Artsakh”, the PM said.
He stated that the Armenian side has suffered numerous losses. “At this moment the number of our victims is very high, and I mourn for our heroic victims who defended the Homeland with their lives, defended their own people’s right to live, defended our identity, dignity and future. And I bow before all our victims, fallen heroes, their families, parents and especially their mothers and consider their loss as my own loss, the loss of my family”, he added, and bowed before their memory with a moment of silence.
Pashinyan said during 18 days of war the Armenian heroic troops made some retreat in northern and southern directions. In the recent days the adversary has changed its tactics, attempting to create panic in the back with the sabotage groups. Nevertheless, the Defense Army of Artsakh keeps the overall situation under control with heavy battles and losses in the manpower and equipment, but also causing huge losses to the adversary both in the manpower and the equipment.
“But we all need to know that the situation is quite heavy now. But I am not doing this recording because of desperation. I convey this information because I have an obligation to talk to our people in the language of truth, unlike Azerbaijan which is hiding its thousands of casualties from own people, and according to our calculations, it is also hiding the loss of military equipment worth over 1 billion dollars.
But the main goal of my today’s message is to talk about our actions and strategy and encourage our national unity over these actions.
Therefore, we need to record that the Turkish-Azerbaijani terrorist alliance will not stop its attack against Artsakh and Armenia just in that way.
During these days the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries – Russia, France and the United States, have made efforts for achieving ceasefire. The statement of the leaders of the three countries, the statement of the foreign ministers and the Moscow statement of October 10 were adopted.
I want to thank the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries for the efforts made.
I want to thank the US administration for all efforts made at this period and further.
I want to thank France and President Emmanuel Macron for the determination on calling the things as they are from the very first days of the unleashing of the war, and for the readiness to make further efforts.
I want to specifically thank Russian President Vladimir...
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