Sarkisian Visits Armenian-Azeri Border, Karabakh

President Sarkisian meets with soldiers stationed in northeastern Armenia near the border with Azerbaijan (Source: President.am)

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)””President Serzh Sarkisian inspected Armenian troops deployed along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan and proceeded to Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday as his foreign minister, Edward Nalbandian, discussed the Karabakh peace process with lawmakers in Yerevan.

Photographs released by the presidential press service showed a uniform-clad Sarkisian visiting military bases in northeastern Armenia and shaking hands with soldiers serving there and their commanders. He was accompanied by Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian and the chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff, Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov.

A statement by the service said the commander of an army corps deployed in the area briefed Sarkisian on the situation along the volatile frontier where serious ceasefire violations have been a regular occurrence this year. It said the president then headed to Karabakh on a “working visit.”