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Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry has accused Armenia of spreading disinformation.

The ministry announced that the Armenian side’s reports about the alleged sabotage of the Azerbaijani army on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, as well as losses, does not correspond to reality.

“Such reports of Armenia aim at deceiving the public and preparing ground for future diversions,” the ministry’s press service told Trend on January 15.

Azerbaijani Armed Forces fully control the situation on the contact line of troops, said ministry.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.

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