Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne has announced that he will suspend arms supplies to Turkey.

The minister wrote about this on his Twitter microblog.

“I have suspended the relevant export permits to Turkey,” the Foreign Minister wrote.

Champagne, on behalf of Canada, called for immediate action to prevent violence and protect civilians.

On 2 October, Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that arms exports to Turkey would be suspended if allegations of human rights violations were substantiated.

It should be reminded that in the early morning of 27 September, Azerbaijan started active shelling along the line of contact with Artsakh. Peaceful settlements were also shelled, including the capital Stepanakert and the city of Shushi, as a result of which 19 civilians were killed in different regions of Artsakh. The Azerbaijani Armed Forces also targeted the military-civilian infrastructure of the Republic of Armenia, as a result of which one civilian was killed and a civilian bus was set on fire by an UAV belonging to the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Evidence of Turkey’s involvement in the war has been uncovered. In September, a Turkish F-16 fighter shot down a Su-25 attacker of the Armenian Air Force in the airspace of Armenia, killing the pilot. On 1 October, the enemy used artillery in the direction of Shatvan village of Gegharkunik region.