Azeri TV reports Armenian truce violations
ANS TV, Baku
31 Mar 05
[Presenter] The Armenian armed forces continue to fire intensively on
the positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces. The enemy has been
mostly active in the direction of Tartar and Agdam [Districts] for
three weeks now. Sahin Rzayev of the ANS Karabakh bureau reports more
on the situation on the front line today. Hello, Sahin. We can hear
you.
[Correspondent, on the phone] Hello, Aytan. The Armenian armed forces
was mostly active in the direction of Agdam District today. Our three
villages came under fire in this part of the front four times. Mostly
the villages of Ciraqli, Orta Qislaq and Miraselli of Agdam District
and our positions in these villages came under fire. The village of
Ciraqli and the positions of the Azerbaijani army came under fire from
the Armenian-occupied village of Qarvand and the area called flower
production farm in two directions from about 1320 to 1350 [0820 to
0850 gmt]. The Armenian gunshots mostly hit the houses in the vicinity
of the village. The village of Ciraqli came under fire today for half
an hour from about 0500 [0000 gmt].
At the same time, the village of Miraselli and our positions in that
village came under fire from the occupied village of Qarvand from 0035
[1935 gmt]. The exchange of fire continued with short intervals till
about 0500 [0000 gmt] in the morning. The village of Orta Qislaq and
our positions in the village came under the enemy fire with short
intervals from about 0300 to 0600 [2200 to 0100 gmt]. Mostly assault
rifles and machine guns were used. Even though there is relative
silence on the front line, we can hear sporadic gunshots.
[Presenter] Thanks, Sahin.