The Azerbaijani side heightens tension in the line of contact spreading misinformation about the death of an Azerbaijani soldier last week, NKR defense ministry’s press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
According to the report of NKR Defense Army situation in the line of contact was unstable within recent days. In this regard the NKR Defense Ministry issued a statement.
“During this period aggressive actions of the Azerbaijani units were characterized not only by intensity of fire damage, but also variety of used weapons. In this context attempts of Azerbaijan’s official and unofficial propaganda machine to condition tension in the frontline by aggressive actions of Defense Amy are ridiculous.
The recent example of misinformation spread by Azerbaijani Defense Ministry is a report issued on March 23 which says that two Azerbaijani soldiers were killed as a result of alleged ceasefire violation by the Armenian side. This is a regular misinformation presented by the Azerbaijani side. After a trilateral meeting in Sochi (between the Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia) and prior to it, the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh continue fulfilling arrangements on strengthening confidence-building measures between the conflicting parties,” said Senor Hasratyan, head of information department, NKR Defense Army.
“By force of habit Azerbaijan is trying to attribute to the Karabakh side any fatal incident in their armed forces caused by interpersonal relations, including cases of March 21 and 23. Doing so Azerbaijan is pursuing two goals: firstly to hide real situation in demoralized army from local citizens, and secondly - to present Defense Army as an aggressive side.
If Baku is really concerned over fate of its guards and rushes to present any fatality as a result of violations of ceasefire, then why the Azerbaijani side not only refuses to implement proposals of the relevant international agencies on withdrawal of snipers from the contact line, but, moreover, periodically violates arrangements on conduction of the OSCE monitoring.
It is clear that the Armenian side, unlike Azerbaijan, not only expresses readiness to implement the arrangements as a gesture of goodwill, but even today continues to refrain from any attempts to aggravate tension. We must conclude that tension in the line of contact between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh is a result of non-constructive policy periodically and consistently carried out by Azerbaijan. This fact first of all should arouse concern of Azerbaijani society,” the statement reads.
