It is everything but not frozen conflict – FRANCE 24 about Nagorno Karabakh conflict (video)

French FRANCE 24 TV channel has prepared a video material about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
 
"The response will be effective, the weapon heavy, with tanks and military engineering across the line of contact. This is the message the Nagorno Karabakh army sends to Azerbaijan if the latter expresses wish to attack," FRANCE 24 TV Channel starts the material, expressing conclusion that it is everything but not a frozen conflict.
 
Presenting the military drill in Karabakh in late October with the participation of presidents of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Serzh Sargsyan and Bako Sahakyan, the French TV channel says, "This military drill takes place in 10km distance from Azerbaijani armed forces, the country which allocates billions of dollars for its military budget."
 
"We have never said we are here for defense only. The functions of our army must not be perceived in a wrong way. The Defense Army has not been created for defense battles only but for attacks as well," Defense Minister of Nagorno Karabakh Movses Hakobyan told the French TV channel.
 
FRANCE 24 has also spoken with the Azerbaijani refugees, Armenians who presented the conditions they are living in.
 
The French media tells about Hovakimyans' family who fled from Azerbaijan in 1988 during the pogroms of Armenians and settled in Karabakh's town of Shushi.
 
FRANCE 24 says the war has not only destroyed the houses of Armenians and Azerbaijanis, but ruined many hopes, broke something down.
 
"We do not believe in uniting. We are living on our own. Why? How can we live with them after all that? I cannot even imagine it. I was wounded during the war. Do you think I will live with them again? It is impossible," Edik Hovakimyan says.
 
"The negotiations and international mediation are far from visible or invisible results," the French TV channel reports.
 
"In Stepanakert, de facto capital of Karabakh, a small number of Armenians and Azerbaijanis are trying to preserve their ways of re-establishment of peace between the two peoples. The town that has 50,000 population has all the conditions peculiar to a capital. There is a parliament, banking system, television and public radio," the French TV channel writes.
 
Raya Babayeva and her team are preparing a 30-minute program for the Azerbaijani population of Nagorno Karabakh. The idea belongs to Babayeva who is one of the Azerbaijanis that preferred to stay in Karabakh after the war, the French TV Channel writes.
 
"Our team hopes our program will manage to reproach the two peoples and to guide them to mutual understanding and reconciliation even if today these peoples are not together. Undoubtedly, tomorrow our two peoples will live side by side as good friends. Everything we do is aimed at it," Babayeva said.
 
FRANCE 24 correspondent notes that Raya is probably very optimistic as the situation has not changed anywhere like for instance on the line of contact.
 
"It is difficult to check whether Armenians are shooting first or Azerbaijanis but the result is that during the past two years at least 60 people were killed form both parties and almost each month Armenian, Azerbaijani soldiers and sometimes civilians die from the bullets of snipers. It is everything but not frozen conflict," FRANCE 24 concludes.
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