APA, Azerbaijan
Jan 7 2012
Azerbaijan’s Permanent Representative to UN submits letter to UN
Secretary-General and Security Council concerning ceasefire violations
by Armenians
[ 07 Jan 2012 14:29 ]
New York. Isabel Levine – APA. Ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev, Permanent
Representative of Azerbaijan to the UN, has submitted a 12-page letter
to the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council concerning the
latest updates on the ceasefire violations, APA’s correspondent was
informed by UN News Center.
According to the letter, during the months of October and November,
102 cases of violations of the ceasefire by the military forces of
Armenia have occurred.
As a result of these violations, five servicemen of the armed forces
of the Republic of Azerbaijan were killed and one civilian was
wounded’ noted Amb. Mehdiyev. `According to the annexed information,
during the reporting period, the armed forces of Armenia continued
intensive fire on both the military and civilian objects in
Azerbaijan, not only from their positions in the occupied territories
of Azerbaijan but also from the territory of Armenia’.
Ambassador Mehdiyev also raised his concern over the information
circulated by the Armenian side at the UN on a regular basis on the
alleged violations of the ceasefire by the armed forces of Azerbaijan.
`Similar to all previous documents of the same nature and content, the
most recent communications from the Permanent Representative of
Armenia to addressed to the Secretary-General [last month] leave no
doubt as to the deliberate attempts of the Government of Armenia to
mislead the international community and to draw its attention away
from the main problems caused by the continuing aggression of Armenia
against Azerbaijan’, Mr. Mehdiyev mentioned adding, `indeed, the
efforts of Armenia’s propaganda machine aimed at distorting the
reality are a priori inappropriate, to say the least, against the
background of the continuing illegal occupation by Armenia of the
sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, its unconcealed annexationist
intentions and apparent disrespect for the Charter of the UN and
international law’.
`Additionally, the information on the alleged ceasefire violations
annexed to the letters from the Permanent Representative of Armenia
contains a number of apparent inaccuracies, factual mistakes and
inconsistencies’, he emphasized arguing, for example, according to
Armenia’s allegations, from 1 August to 30 November 2011, the armed
forces of Azerbaijan violated ceasefire 4,825 times and used various
types of weaponry. The Armenian militaries contrived even to count 460
shots allegedly fired in their direction from sniper weapons. However,
against the background of the above-mentioned total number of
imaginary violations and the claimed use of sniper weapons, the
authors and compilers of such awkward fabrication did not give
themselves the trouble of throwing light on the suspicious lack of
casualties among the Armenian military personnel.
`Another example of unskillful falsification is definitely the unique
`ability’ of Armenian militaries to count from their positions in
trenches the exact number of firearm bullets allegedly shot by the
adverse side’, Mr. Mehdiyev noted, adding. `We are confident that the
Government of the Republic of Armenia will be obliged to cease its
aggressive and provocative policy, to put an end to the occupation of
the territories of Azerbaijan and to respect international law’.