Karabakh authorities have been taking all the necessary steps for returning of the bodies of the members of the helicopter MI-24 crew, shot down by the Azerbaijani party and for ruling out of provocations in future, the NKR Foreign Minister, Karen Mirzoyan, said over today's meeting with participants in the project "Voice of Artsakh".
Touching on the process of international recognition of the NKR, Karen Mirzoyan, said that its progress is first of all the result of success reached by the people and authorities of Karabakh in the matter of the state building.
To recall, the Azeri armed forces downed an Armenian Mi-24 while it was conducting a training flight near the Line on Contact on 12 November. Three officers of the NKR Armed Forces, Sergey Sahakyan, Sargis Nazaryan and Azat Sahakyan, were on board. The NKR State Committee for POWs, Captives and the Missing has requested the ICRC assistance in returning the crewmembers of the downed helicopter. The Azeri officer that shot the helicopter down has been awarded a medal.
The Armenians are still able to find out what has happened to the crew because the Azeris keep firing at the site. Nor have they given any security guarantees to OSCE observers wishing to monitor the area.