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Armenia suffered about 30 losses in last five days - Azerbaijani MoD

03 March 2017 15:58 (UTC +04:00)

The Armenian armed forces suffered about 30 losses in dead and injured as a result of the retaliatory actions taken by the Azerbaijani army from February 25 to March 2, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told APA.

“At last, after a long silence, the Armenian Defense Ministry released a short statement that several servicemen were wounded as a result of the detonation of an explosive during some engineering work on February 28 and were hospitalized in Yerevan,” said Azerbaijan’s Ministry.

Armenia is simply trying to escape from public anger by releasing biased statements that do not correspond to reality, noted the Azerbaijani ministry.

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 includes Nagorno-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 OSCE Minsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the CSCE (OSCE after the Budapest summit held in Dec.1994) 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, the 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.