YEREVAN. – The statement by Armenian Foreign Ministry on the Karabakh helicopter shot down by the Azerbaijani armed forces was circulated as an official document at the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council.

The Ministry strongly condemns Azerbaijani armed forces' shooting down of a helicopter of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army that was operating a training flight .

Before and after each high-level meeting, Baku makes new provocations to frustrate the negotiation process and block the efforts of Armenia and the international community targeted at finding peaceful resolution of the conflict.

The Azerbaijani side violates the arrangements reached during the latest summits, the statement says.

“Such criminal provocation shows that Baku not only ignores the calls on non-use of force, maintaining ceasefire and confidence building measures by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries and international community, moreover they are fully responsible for the aggravation of the situation,” Foreign Ministry said in a statement.