Armenia violated ceasefire during recovery of servicemen

  06 May 2016    Read: 1266
Armenia violated ceasefire during recovery of servicemen
The bodies of Azerbaijani servicemen, died during the war on the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops in early April, remained in the territory being under Armenian control.
Then, urgent measures were taken with international organizations to recover the bodies of dead servicemen from those territories. Armenia violated ceasefire and tried to take secret footage during the recovery of servicemen’s bodies.

Eldar Samadov, the deputy head of the working group of Azerbaijan`s State Commission on prisoners of war, hostages and missing persons made the remarks Friday. He noted that Armenia is using the method of psychological pressure hiding the bodies of servicemen died on the contact line of troops. “For example, Armenians hided the bodies of Azerbaijani servicemen Mubariz Ibrahimov and Farid Ahmadov heroically died on the contact line of the troops in 2010 for a long time,” he added.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.

A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.

The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.

Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.

Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.

Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.

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