(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 25. Armenia is preparing
another provocation, trend reports via the State Border Service of
Azerbaijan.
"According to the information received, on July 26, Armenia is
planning another demonstrative provocation by organizing the
accumulation of various vehicles at the entrance from the opposite
side of the Lachin checkpoint on the state border," the service
said.
"We call on the Armenian side to refrain from such actions that
are aimed at provocation and serve to aggravate the situation. We
declare once again that all responsibility for possible provocative
actions will fall entirely on the Armenian side," the service
added.
In order to prevent the transportation of manpower, ammunition,
mines, as well as other military equipment from Armenia for illegal
Armenian armed groups on the territory of Azerbaijan (which weren't
withdrawn contrary to the trilateral statement signed by
Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders following the 2020 second
Karabakh war), and as an adequate response to the unilateral
establishment of a checkpoint by Armenia on the border with
Azerbaijan on April 22 at the entrance to the Lachin-Khankendi road
contrary to the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020, on April
23 at 12:00 (GMT+4), the units of the State Border Service of the
Republic of Azerbaijan set up a border checkpoint in its sovereign
territories, on the border with Armenia, at the beginning of the
Lachin-Khankendi road.
On June 15, 2023, at 08:45 (GMT +4), as a result of opening fire
from the territory of Armenia, a serviceman of the State Border
Service of Azerbaijan Elshan Rustamov, who served at the Lachin
checkpoint, was injured.
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