(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 19. Anti-terrorist
activities carried out in the region are local and aim to
neutralize illegal Armenian armed groups [which weren't withdrawn
from Azerbaijan's Karabakh region contrary to the trilateral
statement signed by Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders
following the 2020 second Karabakh war], Assistant to the President
of Azerbaijan - Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the
Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev told TRT Haber, Trend reports.
"Azerbaijan does not take actions against the civilian
population living in Karabakh. We have set a goal to save them from
this separatist regime," Hajiyev said.
In order to ensure the provisions of the Trilateral Statement,
to stop large-scale provocations in the Karabakh economic region,
to disarm and withdraw formations of the Armenian armed forces from
the territories of Azerbaijan, to neutralize their military
infrastructure, to ensure the safety of the peaceful population
returning to the territories liberated from occupation, civil
servants involved in construction and reconstruction works, and our
military personnel, as well as to restore the constitutional order
of the Republic of Azerbaijan, anti-terrorist measures have been
launched in the region.
Only military targets belonging to illegal armed formations of
the separatist regime are put out of action with the use of
high-precision weapons available in the arsenal of the Azerbaijani
Army.
Civilians and infrastructure objects are not targets during
localized anti-terrorist activities carried out in Azerbaijan's
Karabakh region.
On September 19, 2023, at 04:30 (GMT+4), as a result of a
terrorist act, on a newly built tunnel road near the village of
Taghavard in Khojavand district, a KAMAZ truck carrying employees
of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan got blown up on a
mine, previously planted by illegal Armenian armed groups [which
haven't been withdrawn contrary to the trilateral statement signed
by Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders following the 2020
second Karabakh war] on the territory of Azerbaijan, where Russian
peacekeepers are temporarily stationed [under the trilateral
statement].
The truck was on its way to the site of the terrorist attack
that took place on the same day at the 58th kilometer of the
Ahmadbayli-Fuzuli-Shusha road passing through the Khojavand
district, which killed employees of the State Road Agency of
Azerbaijan.
The employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Asim
Jamalzade, Ramil Shirinov, Seymur Mahmudov, and Khazar Zamanov,
died on the spot.
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