On the 8th of September, 2010 Deputy Minister of Defence Mr. Ara Nazaryan met the members of the UN working group for arbitrary detention, who were on a fact finding mission in Armenia. The group was headed by Judge El Hadji Malick Sow from Senegal. Representatives from ARM MoD Defence Policy Department, Investigation Service and Military Police took part in the meeting.

On the 8th of September, 2010 the ARM AF military medical 10-person unit will leave for Budva, Montenegro, to take part in the exercise “Medceur-2010” organized by the US European Command in the frameworks of the PfP.

According to the information received from the press service of the NKR Defence Army, on the 4th of September at around 06:50 am in the Northern side of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani contact line (about 2km East of Jraberd) a recurrent attempt of attack by the enemy’s intelligence-saboteur forces was recorded. Due to the respective activities of the Defence Army’s advanced units and a close fight the Azerbaijani assaults were thrown back, leaving one casualty in the Defence Army’s combat post. While escaping, the members of the sabotage group were blown up by mines – some are wounded. According to some intelligence information, one of them is a commander of Azerbaijani AF intelligence and another – the Azerbaijani AF miners’ company.
There are no casualties from the Karabakh side.
The gun with a silencer and the handcuffs found at the corpse of the Azerbaijani assault prove that the armed intelligence unit entered the NKR territory in order to realize saboteur activities and, in case of success, they were also to take Armenian servicemen captives.
The details of the incident are being studied.

RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs

From August 31 till September 3, 2010 Colonel Wolfgang Gäbelein, Chief of Federal Republic of Germany Bundeswehr Planning Department’s Planning Fundamentals, Principles and Controlling Branch was in Yerevan on an advisory visit.

On the 3rd of September, 2010 in the ARM MoD 12th Peacekeeping Brigade the graduation of the brigade staff members’ two-month training course, held by US trainers and the certificate-giving ceremony took place.