ArmInfo.The RA NA Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan Sent letters to the Speakers of the Chambers of the CSTO Member Countries' Parliaments, presenting the provocative actions undertaken in the direction of the northeastern border of the Republic of Armenia by the Azerbaijani armed forces and calling on them to condemn them, the press service of RA NA repots.
"Such actions are considered to be an admissible violation of the fundamental principles of the international law and damage the stability of the whole region," the letters read in particular, the press service o FA NA reports.
To note, Mirzoyan, on his Facebook page, noted: <I encouraged my colleagues to condemn this provocation>.
To note, yesterday at about around 12:30 pm, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, for reasons unknown to the Armenian side, attempted to violate the state border of the Republic of Armenia in the Tavush direction by <UAZ> car. After the Armenian side warned them, the enemy troops left the "UAZ" car, returned to their positions. At 1:45 pm, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, using artillery fire, tried to capture the Armenian stronghold, but were thrown back by the fire, incurring loss of manpower. There are no losses from the Armenian side. At the evening, the enemy resumed shelling of Armenian positions, in the direction of a strong point that had not previously been captured. All night the Azerbaijani Armed Forces fired intensively using 82 mm mortars and tanks at the aforementioned strong point. As it became known, in the morning, after two or three hours of calm, the enemy resumed provocative actions at the Armenian- Azerbaijani state border in the Tavush direction, and continued shelling of Armenian positions.
The Armenian side warned the enemy that all responsibility for further aggravation of the situation would fall on the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan. According to an official statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, during the incident yesterday, three servicemen of the Azerbaijani army were killed and four were injured. But, the media is already circulating information about 17 killed Azerbaijani soldiers.
It is also worth noting that in this situation, the Turkish side took an active position, expressing unconditional support for Baku, which were reflected in two statements by the Turkish Foreign Ministry.