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YEREVAN. – It is accepted around the world that the declaration of military exercises is for the building of confidence and the regulation of the situation.    

The Armenian defense minister’s press secretary, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am. He stated this in connection with the statement which the Azerbaijan MFA has released.  

He stressed that Azerbaijan has made use of its declared military maneuvers to provoke and destabilize the situation.   

As for the Azerbaijani officials’ recollections of the downing of their own helicopter 23 years ago, Hovhannisyan noted that the ex-USSR had existed de jure at the time, and in fact it turns out that Azerbaijan was not overseeing its airspace even at that time.  

Artsrun Hovhannisyan added that the information about Armenian provocations is a baseless nonsense. 

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down an NKR Air Force helicopter on November 12. The chopper was downed during a training flight, and it crashed very close to the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact. As a result, three pilots are believed to have been killed: the commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, as well as Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan. There were no weapons in the chopper. The adversary, on the other hand, continues to fire intensive shots toward the crash site, thus, not allowing access to the area.

Photo by Arsen Sargsyan/NEWS.am

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