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BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 4. Azerbaijan strongly rejects the statement of the Armenian Foreign Ministry on August 3, which unfairly accuses the Azerbaijani side, the statement of Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said, Trend reports.
The fact, that the Armenian Foreign Ministry accuses Azerbaijan of violating the trilateral declaration is nothing but hypocrisy, the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan notes.
"The Azerbaijani side has repeatedly emphasized that the provisions of the statement signed by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia on November 10, 2020, have not been implemented, especially since the Armenian armed forces have not yet completely withdrawn from the territory of Azerbaijan. The article 4 of the trilateral declaration said that the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation shall be deployed in parallel with the withdrawal of the Armenian Armed Forces," the ministry recalled.
The ministry added that in addition to numerous testimonies from the Azerbaijani side about the presence of illegal Armenian armed forces on the territory of Azerbaijan, this fact was also recognized by Armenian authorities.
"Thus, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Sahak Sahakyan said that Armenian conscripts serving in Azerbaijan's Karabakh region will be replaced by military personnel of long-term active military service during the meeting with the parents of those called up for military service on June 29 this year," the ministry noted.
Furthermore, the ministry said, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan stated that "the withdrawal of units of the Armenian armed forces from Azerbaijan's Karabakh will be completed in September of this year" during his interview on July 19, 2022.
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