The spokesman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Hikmet Hajiyev, said that attempts by Armenia to escalate tensions on the border with Azerbaijan during the talks between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in New York are provocative. The goal of these provocations is to hinder the negotiating process.
Hajiyev noted that Armenian armed forces continue to target civilians. A resident of the Gazakh district of Azerbaijan, Elmira Dursunova, was wounded on September 23 as a result of such a provocation.
According to Hajiyev, Armenia deliberately chose civilian objects from which to fire at the positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces, turning civilians into objects of return fire.
He stressed that the obligations of the Geneva Conventions and additional protocols are an integral part of the mandatory training program of the armed forces of Azerbaijan. The protection of civilians, assistance to women, children and the elderly are high moral values of the Azerbaijani people and the Azerbaijani army.
The bloody ethnic cleansing policy against the Azerbaijani people, the Khojaly genocide, firing at the Azerbaijani population on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and even the use of Armenian citizens as a shield are a component of the criminal inhumane acts of military and political leadership of Armenia.
The cause of ceasefire violations and escalation of tension on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is a continuation of Armenia’s aggression against Azerbaijan, Trend cited him as saying.
