With the Lachin Corridor closed for nearly three months, we have a new escalation of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Nikol Pashinyan announced this during the Government session, recalling the sabotage attack that took place on March 5. Pashinyan emphasized that all three soldiers who died were born in Nagorno-Karabakh.

It should be reminded that the police of the Artsakh Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that around 10:00 a.m. on March 5, a sabotage group of the Azerbaijani armed forces targeted and opened fire on the shift car of the police passport and visa department staff in the area called "Khaipalu". As a result of the subversive infiltration, 3 police officers were killed, and another officer received a gunshot wound to the chest and is in the Republican Medical Center.

"This circumstance becomes especially important considering the statement made by the President of Azerbaijan in Munich on February 18, 2023. He admitted that there is an international agreement according to which they should discuss with the representatives of Nagorno Karabakh the issue of their rights and security. However, the President of Azerbaijan emphasized that they are going to have these discussions with people born and living in Nagorno-Karabakh.

On March 1, a meeting of representatives of NK and Azerbaijan took place at the headquarters of the Russian peacekeeping force in NK, and 4 days after that, Azerbaijan launched the provocation of March 5, which was nothing but a terrorist act," said Pashinyan.