"According to the information received, on July 26, Armenia is planning another demonstrative provocation by organizing the accumulation of various vehicles at the entrance from the opposite side of the Lachin checkpoint on the state border," the State Border Service said.
"We call on the Armenian side to refrain from such actions that are aimed at provocation and serve to aggravate the situation. We declare once again that all responsibility for possible provocative actions will fall entirely on the Armenian side," added the State Border Service.
In order to prevent the transportation of manpower, ammunition, mines, as well as other military equipment from Armenia for illegal Armenian armed groups on the territory of Azerbaijan (which weren't withdrawn contrary to the trilateral statement signed by Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders following the 2020 second Karabakh war), and as an adequate response to the unilateral establishment of a checkpoint by Armenia on the border with Azerbaijan on April 22 at the entrance to the Lachin-Khankendi road contrary to the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020, on April 23 at 12:00 (GMT+4), the units of the State Border Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan set up a border checkpoint in its sovereign territories, on the border with Armenia, at the beginning of the Lachin-Khankendi road.
On June 15, 2023, at 08:45 (GMT +4), as a result of opening fire from the territory of Armenia, a serviceman of the State Border Service of Azerbaijan Elshan Rustamov, who served at the Lachin checkpoint, was injured.
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