Armenia`s foreign office refutes Azerbaijan`s claims about arms  supplies to Artsakh 

ArmInfo. Armenia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement refusing Azerbaijan's claims. 

The statement reads: 

On March 7, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan disseminated  another message aimed at misleading the international community,  alleging that on the same day, a column of military vehicles of the  Armed Forces of Armenia, accompanied by the Russian peacekeepers,  passed along the Stepanakert-Ghaibalishen-Lisagor road and that the  personnel of Armed Forces of Armenia were transported along the same  road.

We officially emphasise that this information is completely false, it  does not have and cannot have any factual basis and does not  correspond to reality.

With such "scandalous revelations," Azerbaijan is trying to divert  the attention of the international community from:

1. The terrorist act carried out by the Azerbaijani armed forces on  March 5, as a result of which three employees of the passport service  of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh were killed,  and one employee was injured.

2. The fact that Azerbaijan is not implementing the legally binding  decision of the International Court of Justice on the Lachin corridor  and has kept the Lachin corridor blocked in defiance of the Court's  decision,

3. The fact of not fulfilling its international obligations on the  Lachin corridor undertaken by the tripartite statement of November 9,  2020.

To divert the attention of the international community from these  obvious facts, Azerbaijan has adopted the practice of disinformation  and escalation, trying to create a false information basis to launch  a new aggression not only against Nagorno-Karabakh, but also the  Republic of Armenia.

Moreover, to "justify" its behaviour, Azerbaijan continues its policy  of presenting Armenia in the West as extremely pro-Russian, and in  Russia - as extremely pro-Western.

Armenia has repeatedly stated that no munitions or goods of military  significance were transported through the Lachin corridor both before  and after its blockade since December 12, 2020.

Furthermore, we reaffirm that the Republic of Armenia does not have  an army in Nagorno-Karabakh. The proposal to send an international  fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh to verify the authenticity  of this information was repeatedly rejected by the highest leadership  of Azerbaijan.

Reaffirming Armenia's desire to achieve peace in the region, we once  again highlight the need for the immediate dispatch of an  international fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin  corridor to prevent new Azerbaijani aggression and Azerbaijan's  obvious preparations to subject the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to  ethnic cleansing and genocide.