Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 12
By Ilkin Izzet - Trend:
The Azerbaijani armed forces are entitled to use any of the country's military equipment, including unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters, aircraft, space satellites, the Azerbaijani defense ministry told Trend Jan. 12.
The ministry was commenting on the Armenian media's information about the Azerbaijani Armed Forces' drones over the line of contact of the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops.
"The planes and other aircraft of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces make regular flights over the line of contact, which is not news for Armenia, which occupied Azerbaijani territories," the ministry said.
The ministry stressed that Azerbaijan does not need any permission of aggressive Armenia or the separatist puppet regime about the kind of equipment used on Azerbaijan's lands.
"The Azerbaijani Armed Forces use and will use all available military equipment to control the actions of the occupiers," the ministry said.
The Armenian Defense Ministry once again spread the absurd and illogical misinformation about the situation on the line of contact on January 11-12, the Azerbaijani defense ministry said.
"This information is nothing but Armenia's attempt to blame the opposite side for its failures," the ministry said.
"Armenia lies to its people by spreading misinformation," the ministry said. "It is trying to mislead the world community. The Armenian defense ministry conducts a virtual battle with some "saboteurs". Then it supposedly creates the conditions to take 'corpses remaining in the neutral zone' on the basis of 'compliance with international humanitarian law'. It is trying to accuse the Azerbaijani side of the death of Armenian shepherd."
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry officially states that the country's armed units fully control the situation and suffered no losses, the ministry said.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
Edited by CN