ArmInfo.The armed forces of Azerbaijan are not the first to violate the ceasefire during the monitoring of the OSCE, these actions are permanent. Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan stated this on September 1, responding to a question by ArmInfo about the shelling of the OSCE monitoring group on the border with Armenia by the Azerbaijani armed forces.
According to him, yesterday the Defense Ministry of Armenia has already expressed its position on this incident. "Shots were not aimed directly at the participants of the monitoring group, but they sounded, and this in itself indicates that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces continue to violate the ceasefire regime permanently," concluded Zakaryan.
On August 31, during the OSCE monitoring on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border in the direction of the village of Chinari of the Tavush region of Armenia, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces opened fire. Tigran Balayan, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, wrote about this on his page on twitter, then the press secretary of the Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan also confirmed the information. Meanwhile, Azerbaijani media reports that the next OSCE monitoring on the Armenian- Azerbaijani border passed without incident.
ArmInfo. There is no need to appeal for help to the CSTO in connection with the accumulation of military equipment by Azerbaijan on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border in the direction of Nakhijevan. Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan stated this on September 1, answering the question whether Armenia plans to apply for CSTO assistance in connection with the accumulation of manpower and armament on the border with Armenia in the direction of Nakhijevan.
ArmInfo.The Russian Foreign Ministry has no information on the possible convening of a meeting at the level of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in connection with the firing on August 31 of the OSCE monitoring group on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border.
ArmInfo. "Today, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of four of the six countries of the Eastern Partnership continue to be violated because of existing conflicts." With such a statement in Budapest, the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov addressed the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the countries of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) and the Eastern Partnership.
ArmInfo.Shots from the Azerbaijani side during the OSCE monitoring on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border are directed against the OSCE Minsk Group, Vienna and St. Petersburg documents to reduce tensions in the Karabakh conflict zone. The vice speaker of the Armenian parliament, press secretary of the ruling Republican Party Eduard Sharmazanov responded to the incident today during the OSCE monitoring on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
ArmInfo. In accordance with the mandate of the Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office, on August 31, another monitoring was conducted on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border in the direction of the village of Chinari, Tavush area.