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Baku refutes new Armenian disinformation

31 August 2017 17:24 (UTC+04:00)
Baku refutes new Armenian disinformation

By Laman Ismayilova

Baku has dismissed Armenian Foreign Ministry’s statement about the alleged ceasefire violation on August 31 during the border monitoring.

The reports on the alleged ceasefire violation during the OSCE monitoring in Azerbaijan’s Tovuz region on the border between the two countries is disinformation, Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend on August 31.

International observers, who participated in the monitoring, didn’t report any ceasefire violations, he added.

“This is another provocation of Armenia in anticipation of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers’ meeting under the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs within the UN General Assembly session in New York,” Hajiyev said.

He added that Armenia is trying to artificially create escalation and negatively affect the peace talks over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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