ArmInfo. Azerbaijan must withdraw its occupational forces from the sovereign territory of Armenia. RA Ambassador-at-Large Edmon Marukyan wrote about this in his microblog on Twitter, responding to a statement by Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State Vedant Patel.
In particular, Marukyan noted: "First of all, it was not an exchange of fire but another unprovoked attack by the Azerbaijan's army, which is well known for its ISIS-like warfare conduct. Armenian army took necessary steps to defend our sovereign territory. Second, our demand is that Azerbaijan must withdraw its occupational forces from the sovereign territory of Armenia and return to the internationally recognized borders, i.e. the administrative borders that existed between both countries at the time of independence from the USSR. Third, in 2022, in Prague and Sochi, Azerbaijan committed that it will refrain from the use of force or threat of use of force."
Earlier at the briefing, Patel, speaking about the next aggression of Azerbaijan in the direction of Sotk, said that " this kind of violence, we believe it undermines the progress made by Armenia and Azerbaijan toward a durable and dignified peace, and we call on the leaders of both of these countries that when they convene in Brussels on the 14th to a - that these two parties agree to distance their forces along the border, as discussed by Secretary Blinken during their participation of these negotiations that we hosted here in Washington, D.C., at the beginning of May.," the Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State said.