Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry will introduce military attaches of foreign embassies accredited in the country to the fact of usage of banned incendiary weapons by Armenia against the Azerbaijani population, Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, told APA on May 11.
Hajiyev said that the Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan will jointly organize a trip of foreign military attaches to Terter’s Eskipara village, where in the course of operations Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) discovered facts proving the use of incendiary weapons by Armenian armed forces.
These munitions are prohibited by international conventions.
The spokesperson added that foreign military attaches are going to witness facts of the use of incendiary weapons by Armenians, and details of the facts will then be analyzed by ANAMA experts.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.
A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includesNagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam,Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.
The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.
Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCEMinsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.
Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.
Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.
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