ArmInfo.Azerbaijan continues to put forward new demands to Armenia and Artsakh.
Thus, according to the Azerbaijani media, today a briefing was held at the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry for foreign diplomats accredited in Baku. Presidential Assistant Hikmet Hajiyev, Presidential Representative for Special Assignments Elchin Amirbekov and Deputy Foreign Minister Fariz Rzayev addressed the diplomats.
Thus, Azerbaijani officials complained about the Artsakh Defense Army, expressing dissatisfaction that more than 10 thousand Armenian military personnel continue to serve in its ranks. They have more than a hundred tanks and other armored vehicles, more than two hundred heavy artillery installations, including multiple launch rocket systems, more than two hundred mortars and dozens of electronic warfare systems.
In this vein, they began to talk nonsense about Armenia providing technical, military, logistical and financial support to the Artsakh Autonomous Region, since this is physically impossible even if desired due to the total Azerbaijani blockade of Artsakh for almost a year.
But they didn't stop there, singing an old song about the alleged mining of Azerbaijani territories. "Armenia continues to lay new mines on the territory of Azerbaijan after the ceasefire in November 2020; 2,728 mines produced in Armenia in 2021 were discovered and neutralized," they said, apparently referring to the mines they cleared on the sovereign territories of Armenia captured in Gegharkunik, Syunik and Vayodzor regions of the Republic of Armenia over the past three years. A little less than 200 sq km of sovereign territories of Armenia were captured by the Azerbaijanis after the cessation of hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone in the fall of 2020.
With this nonsense they tried to justify the establishment of an illegal checkpoint in the Kashatagh (Lachin) corridor and the strangulation of Artsakh.
<Despite Armenia's recognition of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, its diplomatic missions accredited to various international organizations continue to issue documents on behalf of Karabakh.
Azerbaijan demands that Armenia abandon its revanchist plans, stop violating the "sovereignty and territorial integrity" of Azerbaijan, and stop supporting separatism and terrorism in Karabakh. Azerbaijan demands the immediate withdrawal of personnel of the Armenian Armed Forces, the liquidation of military and government apparatuses, as well as the disarmament of the Armenian Armed Forces "illegally deployed" in Azerbaijan.
In this case, the amnesty can be applied to representatives of the so-called regime," they said in Baku.