Armenian authorities, through such reports, are trying once again to aggravate the situation on the frontline in order to distract public opinion from unstable political situation that prevails in the country, said the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.
“As we have stated earlier, the Azerbaijani side abides by the ceasefire regime and only take measures to prevent the enemy’s sabotage,” said the ministry.
The Defense Ministry reiterated that the operational situation along the frontline is under the complete control of Azerbaijani armed forces and any provocation of the Armenian side will get an adequate rebuff.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry stated that the responsibility for consequences of these provocations lies on the criminal military-political regime of Armenia.
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 CSCE (OSCE after the Budapest summit held in Dec.1994) 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, the 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.
Azerbaijan dismisses Armenian media reports on alleged contact line sabotage attempt
08 July 2016
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Armenian media reports on the alleged sabotage attempt of the Azerbaijani army in the Aghdam direction of the frontline on the night of July 8 don’t correspond to reality, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told.
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