ArmInfo. Bacu complained about Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in the OSCE because of the latter's statements on the possible use of the Iskander, and also because of the trainings in Nagorno-Karabakh.
"In connection with the military trainings conducted by Armenia in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh-Ed.), The illegal visit of the President of Armenia to the occupied Azerbaijani territories and the statements he made, according to the instruction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan to the OSCE sent a letter to the member states of the Organization, the Chairman of the Permanent Council, the OSCE Secretariat and relevant structures. In particular, it says that the Armenian armed forces, violating the norms and principles of international law, the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council, documents and decisions of the OSCE, held large-scale exercises at the battalion level in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. On March 25, 2017, the Armenian President personally took part in the final stage of military exercises. Having awarded military men, the Armenian President made provocative statements that threaten the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Serzh Sargsyan, calling the Armenian Armed Forces the guardians of Christianity, tried to give the conflict a religious color. This he confirmed the participation of the Armenian Armed Forces in the occupation of Azerbaijani lands, recognizing their personal responsibility. He said that during the April battles in 2016 he gave the order to go over to a counterattack," the statement of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reads.
According to the source, the statement of the President of Armenia is a clear manifestation that Armenia violates the Bishkek Protocol of 1994, which is a basis for ceasefire, through entrenching and building-up military positions, transferring military equipment and hardware to the occupied territories and, thus, takes advantage of cessation of military operations to consolidate the status-quo of occupation.
To recall, on March 25, on a visit to Artsakh President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan speaking before the servicemen of one of the military units of the NKR, stated that last April the Armenian Armed Forces threw back the enemy in all directions. ?Today our guys are monitoring the enemy's movement already at the depth of its territory. Today, an ultra-modern powerful striking force is directed to all directions of the territory of the hunger war of the neighbor, down to the most important infrastructures?, he said, stressing that today the supreme commander-in-chief of the Armenian armed forces will not even blink an eye, if necessary, giving an order for the strike by "Iskander." And this, according to the President, is very well known in the neighboring country.