Azerbaijani Parliament speaker responds to allegations of Armenia


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BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 29. Speaker of the Azerbaijan's Parliament Sahiba Gafarova responded to the statements of her Armenian counterpart Alen Simonyan at a meeting of the CIS Parliamentary Assembly Council in Kazakhstan's Almaty, Trend reports.

Commenting on Simonyan's allegations about the ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan, Gafarova, said that the statements aren't true.

She stressed that earlier Azerbaijani Defense Ministry has already stated that in Karabakh, being the sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, positions and locations of Azerbaijani army are being clarified. At the same time, on the morning of March 26, members of illegal Armenian armed groups attempted to commit sabotage against the units of the Azerbaijani army, and this attempt was immediately suppressed.

The speaker noted that the Azerbaijani side is committed to fulfilling the provisions of the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020 [signed between Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders following the second Karabakh war].

“At the same time, the complete withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces and illegal Armenian armed formations from the territory of Azerbaijan, envisioned by the 4th paragraph of the trilateral statement, hasn't yet been carried out, and not Azerbaijan, but Armenia violates the provisions of the statement,” Gafarova further said.

Besides, Gafarova once again noted that the administrative-territorial unit called 'Nagorno-Karabakh' does not exist.

The speaker also emphasized that, within the trilateral statement, Azerbaijan handed over all the prisoners of war to Armenia. Armenian servicemen detained on the territory of Azerbaijan after the signing of the statement of November 10 aren't considered prisoners of war in accordance with the Geneva Convention.

She once again reminded that Azerbaijan sent a document consisting of five clauses to Armenia on the normalization of relations and is waiting for the response.

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