YEREVAN.- Situation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is the same as usual, spokesperson for Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan said.

He was asked by Armenian News-NEWS.am to comment on the recent reports about growing tension circulated by the Azerbaijani Ministry.

“Armenian side is committed to maintaining ceasefire regime. The reports on growing tension on the border are untrue,” he noted.

Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire, at its line of contact with Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, 860 times in January 2013. 

Azerbaijan had violated the ceasefire 16,300 times in 2012. This country wishes to continually set new “records” in terms of breaching the truce in recent years. It violated the ceasefire approximately 600 times in 2006; around 1,400 times in 2007; 3,500 times in 2008; virtually 4,600 times in 2009; 7,200 times in 2010; and more than 12,600 times in 2011.