It was stated that Azerbaijan's retaliatory measures were limited in scope, directed only at legitimate military targets, and did not target the civil population, APA reports.
This was announced at the briefing for representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Azerbaijan in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the participation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov and Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev on September 13.
It was noted that this act of aggression, which took place on the border of the conditional state, is an element of the chain of military and political provocations committed by Armenia in recent days.
Among such provocations is the gross violation by Armenia of the provisions of the tripartite declarations signed between the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the Russian Federation and the complete withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from the territory of Azerbaijan, the continuation of the mining of the territories of Azerbaijan and the increase of militarization in the conventional border region, obstructing the opening of transport communications and opposing the peace process, taking destructive steps, not responding to the proposals of the Azerbaijani side to start concrete negotiations on a peace agreement, etc. violations have been brought to attention.