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JOINT COMMENTARY BY THE PRESS SERVICES OF THE MINISTRIES OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE OF THE NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
2011-03-12 18:18
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.
Careful investigation of the case can discover some facts testifying
to the fabricated accusations of official Baku.
During the March 10 monitoring conducted by the OSCE Mission in the
noted place, the Karabakh party drew the attention of the monitoring
group to the following facts:
1. The distance between the front positions of the NKR Defense Army
and the village of Orta Karvend makes 1400-1500 meters, i.e. to hit a
man with adjusted fire from a SVD sniper rifle is impossible in this
case;
2. The relief of the noted section doesn't allow adjusted firing from
the positions of the NKR Defense Army towards the opponent, as the
latter has height privileges;
3. According to reliable sources, for more accurate firing at the NKR
Defense Army's positions from Orta Karvend, the Azerbaijani soldiers
climb the houses' roofs. The very houses, in the yards of which `boys
play';
4. In the frontier villages, people usually settle in the middle or
back, i.e. the safer area of the settlement and not in its front
section. And according to the Azerbaijani mass media information,
everything is just the contrary in Orta Karvend, and the yards, where
'children play', are, for some reason, situated as close to the front
line as possible;
5. Even if the child was killed by firing, still it should be
established who and from what side fired. It isn't excluded that Fariz
Badalov could be a victim of firing by the Azerbaijani pointsmen
between the villages of Orta Karvend and Shykhlar;
6. It isn't excluded either that the boy could have perished as a
result of careless handling of unexploded ammunition, which often
happens in the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict zone, on both sides of
the contact-line;
7. If the shot was not fired straightly at the target, but up
on-the-mitre, so the bullet, shot from a simple gun, could not fly so
far. High calibre machineguns can fire at such a distance. But,
according to the Azerbaijani mass media information, the child died on
the way to the hospital. If the shot had been fired from a high
calibre gun, so it would have merely smashed the child's head.
Unfortunately, the Azerbaijani official propaganda doesn't disdain any
methods, even cashing in on children's life and death. The Armenian
parties are strangers to fascist methods used by Azerbaijan - killing
children, asleep men, and hostages, making subversives and terrorists
national heroes, and others.
Every time, after the Presidents' meetings or before a visit of the
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen to the region, the Azerbaijani propaganda
machine increases the tension on the contact-line. Another example was
the March 10 death of 19-year-old soldier of the NKR Defense Army
Arthur Aghababian as a result of the firing from the Azerbaijani side.
The incident took place almost immediately after the OSCE monitoring
of the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces' contact-line. This is rough
violation of the agreements on confidence building measures achieved
on March 5 in Sochi as a result of the Armenian, Russian, and
Azerbaijani Presidents' meeting. While, on the initiative of the
Armenian parties, the mediators once again offer drawing off snipers
from the front line, official Baku doesn't only block this initiative,
but also intensifies the sniper war and with its provocative actions
reduces to zero the efforts of the international community on peaceful
settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
The international community must strictly condemn similar actions of
the Azerbaijani leadership and apply corresponding sanctions against
it.
From: A. Papazian
AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE OF THE NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
2011-03-12 18:18
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.
Careful investigation of the case can discover some facts testifying
to the fabricated accusations of official Baku.
During the March 10 monitoring conducted by the OSCE Mission in the
noted place, the Karabakh party drew the attention of the monitoring
group to the following facts:
1. The distance between the front positions of the NKR Defense Army
and the village of Orta Karvend makes 1400-1500 meters, i.e. to hit a
man with adjusted fire from a SVD sniper rifle is impossible in this
case;
2. The relief of the noted section doesn't allow adjusted firing from
the positions of the NKR Defense Army towards the opponent, as the
latter has height privileges;
3. According to reliable sources, for more accurate firing at the NKR
Defense Army's positions from Orta Karvend, the Azerbaijani soldiers
climb the houses' roofs. The very houses, in the yards of which `boys
play';
4. In the frontier villages, people usually settle in the middle or
back, i.e. the safer area of the settlement and not in its front
section. And according to the Azerbaijani mass media information,
everything is just the contrary in Orta Karvend, and the yards, where
'children play', are, for some reason, situated as close to the front
line as possible;
5. Even if the child was killed by firing, still it should be
established who and from what side fired. It isn't excluded that Fariz
Badalov could be a victim of firing by the Azerbaijani pointsmen
between the villages of Orta Karvend and Shykhlar;
6. It isn't excluded either that the boy could have perished as a
result of careless handling of unexploded ammunition, which often
happens in the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict zone, on both sides of
the contact-line;
7. If the shot was not fired straightly at the target, but up
on-the-mitre, so the bullet, shot from a simple gun, could not fly so
far. High calibre machineguns can fire at such a distance. But,
according to the Azerbaijani mass media information, the child died on
the way to the hospital. If the shot had been fired from a high
calibre gun, so it would have merely smashed the child's head.
Unfortunately, the Azerbaijani official propaganda doesn't disdain any
methods, even cashing in on children's life and death. The Armenian
parties are strangers to fascist methods used by Azerbaijan - killing
children, asleep men, and hostages, making subversives and terrorists
national heroes, and others.
Every time, after the Presidents' meetings or before a visit of the
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen to the region, the Azerbaijani propaganda
machine increases the tension on the contact-line. Another example was
the March 10 death of 19-year-old soldier of the NKR Defense Army
Arthur Aghababian as a result of the firing from the Azerbaijani side.
The incident took place almost immediately after the OSCE monitoring
of the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces' contact-line. This is rough
violation of the agreements on confidence building measures achieved
on March 5 in Sochi as a result of the Armenian, Russian, and
Azerbaijani Presidents' meeting. While, on the initiative of the
Armenian parties, the mediators once again offer drawing off snipers
from the front line, official Baku doesn't only block this initiative,
but also intensifies the sniper war and with its provocative actions
reduces to zero the efforts of the international community on peaceful
settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
The international community must strictly condemn similar actions of
the Azerbaijani leadership and apply corresponding sanctions against
it.
From: A. Papazian