BAKU – Azerbaijan has launched an “anti-terrorist” operation within the breakaway area of Nagorno-Karabakh to drive out the formations of the Armenian armed forces.
The Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence in a press release mentioned that the Armenian armed forces within the territory of Azerbaijan, the place the Russian peacekeeping contingent is briefly deployed, utilizing varied caliber weapons are subjecting to intensive hearth the Azerbaijan Military’s positions stationed within the course of the Aghdam area.
The ministry additionally clarified that the civilian inhabitants and civilian infrastructure amenities are usually not focused in the course of the anti-terrorist actions performed by the Azerbaijan within the Karabakh area of Azerbaijan.
“Solely reliable army targets are being incapacitated by means of high-precision weapons accessible within the armament of the Azerbaijan Military,” learn the assertion.
Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian forces occupied Karabakh, a territory internationally acknowledged as a part of Azerbaijan, and 7 adjoining areas.
In 2020, Azerbaijan managed to liberate a number of cities, villages, and settlements from Armenian occupation throughout 44-day-long clashes. The warfare got here to an finish after Russia brokered a cease-fire settlement between each side.
The Azerbaijan’s defence ministry mentioned, “On September 19, a car belonging to Azerbaijan State Company for Vehicle Roads exploded hitting a land mine beforehand planted by the reconnaissance-subversion teams of Armenia’s armed forces within the Karabakh area of Azerbaijan, with the needs of committing terror act, on the Ahmadbayli-Fuzuli-Shusha Highway that killed two civilians”.
The identical day, the explosion of car carrying the army personnel of the Inside Troops of the Ministry of Inside Affairs on the mine, put in by the reconnaissance-subversion teams of Armenia’s armed forces led to fatalities and accidents amongst our army servicemen. Such info are the testimony to the continued deliberate and deliberate coverage of terror by Armenia in opposition to Azerbaijan, it mentioned.
The Ministry of Protection of Azerbaijan has repeatedly said that opposite to the provisions of the Trilateral Assertion signed on 10 November 2020, the continued presence of Armenia’s armed forces formations within the Karabakh area of Azerbaijan is the supply of grave risk to regional peace and stability.
Due to this fact, native anti-terrorist actions have been launched to make sure the provisions of the Trilateral Assertion, suppress large-scale provocations within the Karabakh financial area, to disarm and safe the withdrawal of formations of Armenia’s armed forces from our territories, neutralize their army infrastructure, present the security of the civilian inhabitants returned to the territories liberated from occupation, the civilians concerned in building and restoration work and our army personnel, and finally restore the constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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