Azerbaijan has always stated in front of international partners that about 10,000 soldiers and tank and artillery elements in the territory of Garabagh are a threat to regional peace, said Hikmat Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan-Head of the Department of Foreign Policy Affairs of the Presidential Administration, at a briefing for the diplomatic corps accredited in Azerbaijan held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, APA reports.
He stressed that police officers and civilians were killed yesterday as a result of a mine explosion, which made Azerbaijan implement limited anti-terrorist measures: "In the essentially limited actions, the Azerbaijani side demonstrated that it did not specifically and selectively hit civilian objects in any way."