YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire, at the line of contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, around 3,000 times ever since the beginning of 2012, Armenia’s MOD Press Service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As a result, two Armenian military servicemen lost their lives and four others were wounded.

In 2011, the adversary breached the ceasefire 12,600 times; in 2010, 7,200 times; in 2009, 4,600 times; in 2008, 3,500 times; in 2007, 1,400 times; and in 2006, close to 600 times. So, every year Azerbaijan increases the number of its ceasefire violations.

And Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army press service informs that the Defense Army’s vanguard divisions refrain from taking equivalent measures against the adversary’s provocative operations, and they have taken retaliatory actions solely in the case of extreme necessity.