YEREVAN. – “By ignoring the calls by the international community and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs with respect to maintaining the ceasefire on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Line of Contact, the Azerbaijan armed forces continue to fire shots in the direction of Armenian [military] positions and settlements.

“This gives reason to believe that the operations by the Azerbaijan armed forces are either not overseen by the [Azerbaijani military] command, or they are a provocation toward destabilizing the situation on the boundary line.

The Armenian Ministry of Defense (MOD) issued a statement with the aforesaid content.

“During the past few days, the Azerbaijani party violated the ceasefire numerous times on the Armenia and the NKR [i.e., Nagorno-Karabakh Republic] border. [But] the Armenian position holders refrained from retaliatory actions and did not fire any shots.

“The Armenia armed forces oversee the situation on the border, adhere to the maintenance of the ceasefire, and they will take equivalent actions solely in the case of target-oriented violations by the adversary.

“As for the information, which is voiced by the Azerbaijani propaganda machine, that as if the Armenian party is violating the ceasefire, such news are raunchy attempts to misinform, by way of disinformation, the international community and its own people,” the Armenian MOD statement also reads, in particular.