YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan breached the truce with Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic over 1,000 times in September 2013. 

Armenian Defense Minister’s Press Secretary Artsrun Hovhanisyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As a result of the ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan, the Armenian side was compelled to open response fire 210 times, the Armenian MOD reports.  

Ten percent of the truce violation by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces was carried out by snipers, who made use of average-caliber weaponry. 

At the same time, the Azerbaijani side used large-caliber sniper weapons about 35 times.  

The Armenian side, on the other hand, made use of such weaponry close to 15 times.