“In particular, the recent statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs is concerning. In case when the Armenian side presented clear proofs which side provoked a tension and launched sabotage infiltration attempts, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued another non-sense, balanced and inadequate statement to Azerbaijan’s actions.”
Given the outbreak of new conflicts between the two countries’ forces, Qasemi said, Iran invited its two northern neighbors to self-restraint and recommend both sides to do their best to stabilize the situation on the ground through dialogue and negotiations.
Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) has released two separate footages and an audio recording proving the attempted subversive operation of the Azerbaijani units overnight to February 24-25.
“In a meeting with the commanding staff of the Armed Forces, the President of Armenia already gave a response to such behavior and stated that no any internal political process can impact the combat readiness of the Armed Forces. The evidence of the President’s speech is Azerbaijan’s today’s losses. The entire responsibility of the losses of the Azerbaijani side falls on that country’s Aliyev clan,” Sharmazanov said.
In defiance to the calls of the international community, the demands of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries to strictly adhere to the 1994-1995 ceasefire agreements and to refrain from the use of force and threat of use of force, last night the incursion attempt by the Azerbaijani side on the Line of Contact between Azerbaijan and Artsakh, is Baku’s another blow to the efforts by Armenia and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries exerted towards the peaceful settlement.
Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the OSCE Minsk Group CoChairing countries about the Azerbaijani attack attempt launched in the Nagorno KarabakhAzerbaijan line of contact overnight February 25.
“Azerbaijan initiates a premeditated provocation in the border with Karabakh, the Defense Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh prevented the attack attempt,” he writes on Twitter.
“It can be stated that the Minsk process didn’t give any results. However the fact that in recently there had not been a large-scale conict speaks in itself”, he said.
The situation in the Nagorno KarabakhAzerbaijan line of contact is under control. The Azerbaijani side continues violating the ceasefire, however there is nothing extraordinary at the moment, Davit Babayan – Spokesman of the President of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh Republic).
The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan issued a statement on their casualties on February 25 in the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact, the Azerbaijani APA reports.
