Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of torpedoing earlier reached agreements
10.11.2016,
16:55
Armenia’s deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan has lambasted today Azerbaijan for conducting large-scale military exercises describing them as violation of prior agreements reached with Armenia.
YEREVAN, November 10. /ARKA/. Armenia’s deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan has lambasted today Azerbaijan for conducting large-scale military exercises describing them as violation of prior agreements reached with Armenia.
Azerbaijani defense ministry reported earlier that it was planning to conduct November 12-18 large-scale military exercises involving 60,000 troops, more than 50 military aircraft, more than 150 battle tanks and armored vehicles, as well as hundreds of rocket and artillery systems.
"The problem is that under agreements reached by the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan during their talks in Vienna and St. Petersburg, Azerbaijan is to notify us about conducting military exercises of that scale 40 days beforehand, which was not done. This shows once again that Baku continues to torpedo the implementation of agreements reached in Vienna and St. Petersburg ", - said Kocharyan, describing it as another attempt of Azerbaijan to demonstrate its power, especially after the April events.
With regard to a possible rise of tension along the border, Kocharyan said the Armenian side must always be ready for any step of the enemy. "This is an axiom for all, especially after the April events", - he said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the military operations. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh.
Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year.
On April 2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno-Karabakh. Four days later a cease-fire was reached. ---0---
Azerbaijani defense ministry reported earlier that it was planning to conduct November 12-18 large-scale military exercises involving 60,000 troops, more than 50 military aircraft, more than 150 battle tanks and armored vehicles, as well as hundreds of rocket and artillery systems.
"The problem is that under agreements reached by the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan during their talks in Vienna and St. Petersburg, Azerbaijan is to notify us about conducting military exercises of that scale 40 days beforehand, which was not done. This shows once again that Baku continues to torpedo the implementation of agreements reached in Vienna and St. Petersburg ", - said Kocharyan, describing it as another attempt of Azerbaijan to demonstrate its power, especially after the April events.
With regard to a possible rise of tension along the border, Kocharyan said the Armenian side must always be ready for any step of the enemy. "This is an axiom for all, especially after the April events", - he said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the military operations. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh.
Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year.
On April 2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched military assaults along the entire perimeter of its contact line with Nagorno-Karabakh. Four days later a cease-fire was reached. ---0---
