ArmInfo. To speed up the Karabakh peace process, it is necessary to observe ceasefire and take confidence-building measures, Defense Minister of Armenia Vigen Sargsyan said when receiving OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov of Russia, Pierre Andrieu of France and James Warlick of U.S. as well as OSCE CiO PR Andrzej Kasprzyk.
According to the Defense Ministry press-office, the minister informed the mediators of the current military and political aspects of the talks on Karabakh and the situation on the Line of Contact of the Karabakh- Azerbaijani troops, as well as of Azerbaijan's attempts to destabilize the situation after the April military actions. As a result, shelling intensifies on the line of contact, large-caliber weapons are used and the number of casualties grows.