Interfax News Agency, Russia
March 13 2008
No new incidents in Nagorno-Karabakh – Yerevan
YEREVAN
There have been no new incidents at the dividing line between
Azerbaijan and the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh,
Armenian Prime Minister Vartan Oskanian said, adding that he hoped
the ceasefire will hold.
"There was a provocation on the part of Azerbaijan, but we cut it
short. Azerbaijan continues to spread false information that shooting
continues and that it is incurring losses. We refute all this
information," Oskanian told a press conference in Yerevan on
Thursday.
"We do not know how the Azeri side explains these victims, where do
they take these numbers from. Most probably, these are the people
that were killed on March 4," he said.
Commenting on reports in the Azeri media that an operation against
Kurds on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh was possible, Oskanian
said, "This is a lie and a provocation on the part of Azerbaijan."
"This information has as its goal to influence the international
community and bolster the Azeri-Turkish alliance. The Armenian
Foreign Ministry carefully followed these statements," he said.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry is contacting all the people the Azeri
media have referred to. "These people are surprised that somebody has
been making such statements on their behalf. There is no truth here,"
he said.
According to Armenia, a subversive Azeri group violated the ceasefire
and attacked the advance post of the army of Nagorno-Karabakh near to
Levonarkh in Martakert district and temporarily occupied it, before
it was forces to retreat to its earlier positions through response
actions and losses.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry demanded that the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) send a monitoring
mission. The monitoring was planned for March 7, but it was conducted
only on the Karabakh side, Armenia said.