Azerbaijani army prevents another Armenian sabotage

Azerbaijani army prevents another Armenian sabotage
# 22 February 2017 07:05 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan’s armed forces have prevented another act of sabotage of Armenia and the enemy suffered losses, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told APA on Feb. 22.

On Feb. 21, a subversive group of the Armenian army attempted to attack on the Azerbaijani army positions in order to commit another diversion.

Actions of the Armenian side were detected in advance and pre-emptive strikes were carried out on the Armenian positions. The Armenian side, suffering losses in dead and injured, was forced to retreat, said the Defense Ministry.

The Azerbaijani army suffered no losses and fully controls the situation along the line of contact, stressed the Defense Ministry.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.

A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.

The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.

Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the CSCE (OSCE after the Budapest summit held in Dec.1994) Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.

Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, the US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.

Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.

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