Azerbaijan continues provocations in the contact line with the connivance of international community

PanARMENIAN.Net - As is customary in recent years, the murder of Armenian servicemen occurred on the eve of the visit of Lithuanian President to the region. This coincidence was not accidental, however. Baku quite uniquely meets representatives of European and world structures. One may say it has already become a tradition. Neither is it a novelty that the blame for the breach of ceasefire is shifted onto Armenia. Most likely, another instance of ceasefire violation will occur ahead of European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek’s visit to the region, slated for May 18. Azerbaijani provocations should also be expected on May 9, the day of liberation of Shushi. In every possible way Baku wants to emphasize that by use of force she is ready to return Karabakh to Azerbaijan, and she has even thought up a new “temporary” name for the Republic of Artsakh – the “Internationally Recognized Territory of Azerbaijan.”

Recent developments on the front line are beginning to cause concern, since impunity always generates a greater evil. OSCE and the OSCE Minsk Group confine themselves to statements on “inadmissibility of tension on the contact line”, but, as a result, Azerbaijani units are increasing their attacks on the positions of the NKR Defense Army.

Azerbaijani provocations, of course, do not remain unpunished. The NKR army gives an adequate response, but the Azerbaijani side prefers to remain silent about it. The losses are interpreted as accidents – an old and tested method of Azerbaijani propaganda. Baku is also used to blaming Armenian soldiers themselves for the death of Armenian servicemen. So, in the last incident, head of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry press service Eldar Sabiroglu declared that the Armenian soldiers were killed not by the snipers from the Azerbaijani side, but as a result of inner clashes.

“These statements are only figment of the impudent imagination of Sabiroglu. He seems to have mixed it up with the incidents taking place in the Azerbaijani armed forces. Armenian soldiers were killed and wounded as a result of the enemy’s gunfire,” said Spokesman of the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Artsakh, Senor Hasratyan. He said the provocative acts and violations of the ceasefire by Azerbaijan have always received an adequate response from NKR so that Azerbaijan is forced to live in constant fear.

Last week there was registered a rapid rise in violations of the ceasefire on the contact line of the Azerbaijani and NKR forces. From April 25 to May 1, the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire about 350 times.

Over 2700 shots were fired at the positions of the Karabakh forces in almost all directions of the contact line, of which nearly 1800 were fired up between 27th to 29th of April, killing two and injuring one soldier.

“The aggressive actions taken by the armed forces of Azerbaijan in recent years once again confirm that official Baku does not only violate the ceasefire agreements reached at various international levels, but also gives them a more vigorous and uncontrollable nature,” the statement of the NKR Defense Army press service said.