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  • BAKU: Permanent Rep. to UN submits letter to UN re cease-fire violat

    APA, Azerbaijan
    Jan 7 2012

    Azerbaijan's Permanent Representative to UN submits letter to UN
    Secretary-General and Security Council concerning ceasefire violations
    by Armenians

    [ 07 Jan 2012 14:29 ]


    New York. Isabel Levine - APA. Ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev, Permanent
    Representative of Azerbaijan to the UN, has submitted a 12-page letter
    to the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council concerning the
    latest updates on the ceasefire violations, APA's correspondent was
    informed by UN News Center.

    According to the letter, during the months of October and November,
    102 cases of violations of the ceasefire by the military forces of
    Armenia have occurred.

    As a result of these violations, five servicemen of the armed forces
    of the Republic of Azerbaijan were killed and one civilian was
    wounded' noted Amb. Mehdiyev. `According to the annexed information,
    during the reporting period, the armed forces of Armenia continued
    intensive fire on both the military and civilian objects in
    Azerbaijan, not only from their positions in the occupied territories
    of Azerbaijan but also from the territory of Armenia'.

    Ambassador Mehdiyev also raised his concern over the information
    circulated by the Armenian side at the UN on a regular basis on the
    alleged violations of the ceasefire by the armed forces of Azerbaijan.

    `Similar to all previous documents of the same nature and content, the
    most recent communications from the Permanent Representative of
    Armenia to addressed to the Secretary-General [last month] leave no
    doubt as to the deliberate attempts of the Government of Armenia to
    mislead the international community and to draw its attention away
    from the main problems caused by the continuing aggression of Armenia
    against Azerbaijan', Mr. Mehdiyev mentioned adding, `indeed, the
    efforts of Armenia's propaganda machine aimed at distorting the
    reality are a priori inappropriate, to say the least, against the
    background of the continuing illegal occupation by Armenia of the
    sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, its unconcealed annexationist
    intentions and apparent disrespect for the Charter of the UN and
    international law'.

    `Additionally, the information on the alleged ceasefire violations
    annexed to the letters from the Permanent Representative of Armenia
    contains a number of apparent inaccuracies, factual mistakes and
    inconsistencies', he emphasized arguing, for example, according to
    Armenia's allegations, from 1 August to 30 November 2011, the armed
    forces of Azerbaijan violated ceasefire 4,825 times and used various
    types of weaponry. The Armenian militaries contrived even to count 460
    shots allegedly fired in their direction from sniper weapons. However,
    against the background of the above-mentioned total number of
    imaginary violations and the claimed use of sniper weapons, the
    authors and compilers of such awkward fabrication did not give
    themselves the trouble of throwing light on the suspicious lack of
    casualties among the Armenian military personnel.

    `Another example of unskillful falsification is definitely the unique
    `ability' of Armenian militaries to count from their positions in
    trenches the exact number of firearm bullets allegedly shot by the
    adverse side', Mr. Mehdiyev noted, adding. `We are confident that the
    Government of the Republic of Armenia will be obliged to cease its
    aggressive and provocative policy, to put an end to the occupation of
    the territories of Azerbaijan and to respect international law'.

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