Thursday, May 27 2021 11:36

ArmInfo. The Azerbaijani Armed Forces kidnapped 6 Armenian servicemen from the sovereign territory of Armenia, since this fact cannot be called captivity, Acting Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan on May 27 before the start of a government  meeting.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia issued a statement today that in  the early morning of May 27, six servicemen of the Armed Forces of  Armenia were surrounded and taken prisoner by the servicemen of the  Armed Forces of Azerbaijan while carrying out engineering work in the  border zone in the Gegharkunik region of Armenia, in the protected  territory of the N-military unit. The Ministry of Defense informs  that the persons who performed engineering work and were captured on  the territory of Armenia without crossing the border are contract  servicemen. "The statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic  of Azerbaijan, according to which the Armenian servicemen, captured  by the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, were in the territory of  Azerbaijan, does not correspond to reality," the statement reads.   According to Pashinyan, the servicemen carried out work to "furnish  the border." These works, as he pointed out, were accompanied by the  establishment of warning signs about the mining of the territory. 

"The actions were carried out to increase the level of border  security," he said.  Nikol Pashinyan recalled that units of the  Azerbaijani Armed Forces have been stationed in the indicated  territory since May 12. "The issue (should be considered) precisely  in this context, and the ongoing processes are absolutely  unacceptable for us. Incidents of this kind occur due to the fact  that some want us to come to terms with the presence of the  Azerbaijani Armed Forces on our territory, which will never happen ",  emphasized the acting head of government.

The next scenario, or the second goal pursued by Baku by the  development of this situation, according to Pashinyan, is to provoke  a military clash. This, as pointed out by the acting prime minister,  the Armenian side in no way can admit.