(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Vugar Khalilov
The Armenian armed forces have shelled Azerbaijani military
positions near the state border in the liberated Kalbajar region,
Azernews reports, citing the Defense Ministry.
On the night of July 5, units of the Armenian armed forces,
using various caliber weapons, subjected to fire the Azerbaijani
army positions located in Kalbajar's Yukhari Ayrim village from
their positions in Basarkechar region's Zarkand village close to
the state border, the ministry said.
Units of the Azerbaijani army took appropriate retaliatory
measures to suppress the opposite side, the report added.
Armenia periodically shells Azerbaijani military positions on
its liberated territories. The previous truce violation was
recorded on July 4 in the same direction on the state border. The
Azerbaijani Defense Ministry blamed the Armenian military-political
leadership for aggravating the situation on the state border.
Earlier, Ilham Aliyev stated that peace will return to the
Caucasus based on the five principles Baku recently proposed for
normalizing relations with Armenia.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's recent inflammatory
comments accusing Azerbaijan of planning a new war in the region
were categorically repudiated by official Baku.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry stressed that if Armenia truly
desires peace, it must demonstrate political will and take genuine
efforts toward peace, rather than waste time resurrecting the Minsk
Group format of which the efficiency was always poor, and this has
now been publicly admitted.
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