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Azerbaijani Defense Ministry refutes another lie by Armenia

23 June 2017 13:37 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijani Defense Ministry refutes another lie by Armenia

By Rashid Shirinov

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry has dismissed as ‘fictitious’ Armenian reports alleging that on the night of June 21 to 22, the Azerbaijani special forces made an infiltration attempt on the contact line and had to retreat after suffering four losses.

"Armenia’s military leadership once again resorted to fictitious and false information aimed at justifying its recent losses and failures at the front and giving a little “confidence” to the panic-stricken Armenian population," the Defense Ministry reported on June 23.

Lately, Armenian armed forces have intensified their attacks on the Azerbaijani positions, thus killing the Azerbaijani soldier on June 15. The Azerbaijani side retaliated the provocations and eliminated six soldiers of the Armenian armed forces on the line of contact.

The Armenian armed units daily breach the ceasefire regime by firing Azerbaijani positions, even settlements near the frontline. Moreover, Armenian units regularly try to carry out acts of sabotage on the contact line between the troops and by this aggravate the situation. The Armenian militaries use large-caliber machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers while breaching the ceasefire.

Armenia captured Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions from Azerbaijan in a war that followed the Soviet breakup in 1991. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and nearly 1 million were displaced as a result of the war.

Large-scale hostilities ended with a Russia-brokered ceasefire in 1994 but Armenia continued the occupation in defiance of four UN Security Council resolutions calling for immediate and unconditional withdrawal. Peace talks mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. within the OSCE Minsk Group have produced no results so far.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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