OSCE MG was briefed on Baku's deceitful statements about "child's killing"

PanARMENIAN.Net - On March 16, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs, ambassadors Robert Bradtke (U.S.), Bernard Fassier (France) and Igor Popov (Russia), and personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.

During the meeting, Sargsyan confirmed Armenia's willingness to continue negotiations based on the agreements reached during the Sochi meeting among the Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents.

The parties also referred to continuous provocations by Azerbaijan, including killing of an Armenian serviceman, destructive statements, and, specifically, misinformation on the alleged "killing of a nine-year-old Azerbaijani child by an Armenian sniper."

The Armenian President noted that the recent statement is a slander, since hostilities against civilians, let alone against children, run counter to the moral portrait of Armenian soldiers. As for the certain incident, similar accusations are baseless, since even territorial peculiarities of the region make it impossible.

Among other issues, the parties discussed further steps for the Karabakh conflict settlement.

On March 9, Azerbaijani media reported that allegedly “the Armenian armed forces killed an Azerbaijani child on March 8.” Meanwhile, the reports were controversial – some of them stated that the boy was eight, while others spoke about resident of Orta Karvend settlement Farid Badalov, a ten-year-old boy.

Later, the press services of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense of NKR issued a joint statement condemning false accusations of Azerbaijani side.

“The Azerbaijani official propaganda continues aggravating the situation on the occasion of the Azerbaijani boy’s death in the frontier village of Orta Karvend, intensively spreading false accusations against the Karabakh party,” the statement said.