Azerbaijan, Baku, June 5 / Trend K. Zarbaliyeva /
The attempts of the Armenian armed forces to complicate the situation at the front line are connected with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the region, Azerbaijani MP Bahtiyar Sadigov told Trend today.
He said that the tension created by Armenia at the front line, is not accidental. It is part of its insidious policy.
"These actions are not random," he said. "If we consider the period of the ceasefire regime for the last five years, one can see that the serious talks on Nagorno-Karabakh, the talks with the presidents are being held every time. The Armenian side violates the ceasefire regime.
They are trying for the situation at the front line to be discussed in the negotiation process. I think that the latter activation is not accidental either. It is connected with Clinton's visit to the region."
If the Armenian side strains the situation, they will try to present this to Clinton as pressure from the Azerbaijani side and Azerbaijan's blackmail toward Armenia, he said.
"Knowing that Armenia's economic, political and military levels are much lower than that of Azerbaijan, Yerevan will seek for the military variant of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be always rejected in the negotiation process and for Armenia to be able to maintain the status quo," he said.
He said that exacerbating the situation at the front line, Armenia is playing with fire.
"Let the Armenians remember this," he said. "The fact that the Azerbaijani lands are under long occupation strains the nerves taking into account that Azerbaijan is a strong country, but a weak country holds its lands under occupation and tries to strike blows. This is a very dangerous game."
It should be recalled that at 06:30 on June 5 Armenian sabotage group's efforts to enter Azerbaijani Armed Forces' positions in Ashagi Eskipara village in the Gazakh region failed and it retreated by suffering losses.
As a result of the fight, 4 soldiers of Azerbaijani Armed Forces were killed.
Another Azerbaijani soldier was killed as a result of fire opened from nameless heights in Gazakh region.
Earlier, military sources told Trend that the Armenian armed forces attempted to attack the Azerbaijani positions in the Gazakh region.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France and the U.S. - are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.