By awarding National Hero title to the perpetrator of June 18-19 subversive act in NKR, Azerbaijan is cultivating an image of a criminal with a bloodstained axe, deputy RA Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan stated.

“The organizers of subversive act are giving out awards for successful execution of their orders. Such a policy suggests that criminals, rather than soldiers are brought up in Azerbaijan. However, repeated hostile statements do nothing more than prove Azerbaijan’s weakness. A party, meaning to initiate an attack, actually attacks instead of resorting to secret actions,” Shavarsh Kocharyan stressed, noting that Baku’s persisting with current policy will inflict new problems on Azerbaijan.