YEREVAN. – Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha is informed about Azerbaijan’s ceasefire violations at the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, Chairman Koryun Nahapetyan of the Armenian National Assembly Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs stated during a press conference on Tuesday.  

He also informed that this matter was raised during session of the Coordinating Council of the chairmen of the defense and security committees of the parliaments of CSTO countries. The participants also examined the border situation.   

“I hope contacts with the CSTO Secretary General will continue, [and] the border security issue remains on the agenda,” Nahapetyan stressed.  

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire, at their line of contact with Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s armed forces, over 12,160 times since the beginning of this year. 

Azerbaijan made use of sniper weaponry more than 2,300 times and large-caliber weaponry, close to 334 times.

And eleven Armenian military servicemen were killed and twenty-one others—including three civilians—were wounded as a result of Azerbaijan’s ceasefire violations since the beginning of 2012.  

To note, Azerbaijan wishes to set new “records” in terms of breaching the truce in recent years. It violated the ceasefire 600 times in 2006; 1,400 times in 2007; 3,500 times in 2008; 4,600 times in 2009; 7,200 times in 2010; and more than 12,600 times in 2011.        

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