Senor Hasratyan: Against each killed Armenian soldier the Azerbaijani army got and will get incomparably serious response

YEREVAN, MAY 9, ARMENPRESS:

The propaganda service of the Azerbaijani defense army continues spreading news as if the Karabakhi party is periodically violating the ceasefire regime in different sectors of the line of contact. Speaking to Armenpress, head of the Defense Army's press service department Senor Hasratyan said that especially during the recent period the cases of violation of cease fire regime have become quite often. But the issue is which side first initiates it and what forces and means are being applied during the activities.

According to operative information of the Defense Army, in April 2011 the enemy violated the ceasefire regime more than 950 times during which 6500 shots were opened from weaponry of different calibers. It is necessary to note that during the violation of ceasefire regime the Azerbaijani side used "СВД", "Black Arrow" and "ISTIGAL" sniper guns of Turkish production.

"By the way the official Baku has many times stated that Azerbaijan is carrying out active work toward preparation of snipers and imports from Russia and Turkey necessary arms and clothing. It is not a secret too that besides own forces Azerbaijan uses foreign snipers paying them good salaries. The proof of it is the losses the Defense Army had April 28-29. It shows that the Azerbaijani side is not only inclined to bypass the arrangement reached at the peace talks but with cynicism peculiar to it spread false information about the incident", Hasratyan said.

According to the opinion of the international experts, the tensions in the Azerbaijani-Karabakhi contact line are exclusively agreed with the military strategy of Baku aimed to first of all remind about the possibility of resuming the unfinished war, second to ensure inner-political stability in the own country and third, present the Armenian side to the international community as initiator of provocative actions.

And how Azerbaijan succeeds in bringing to life these ideas may become clear from the frequency of growing inner-political uprising and of course the neutral attitude of international community toward Baku's monotonous and senseless statements.

Hasratyan said during the past four months of 2011 the Azerbaijani frontier forces violated the ceasefire regime about 3200 times killing five Armenian soldiers and wounding 4. In the same period, according to the statements of the Azerbaijani defense ministry the Armenian side opened fire about 150 times. According to the same source, in the running year about the 40% of the 51 killed and 29 wounded soldiers of Azerbaijan is ascribed to the cases of violation of cease fire regime. If we take into consideration this statistics of Azerbaijan, it will appear that the rival violated the ceasefire regime 20 times more than the Karabakhi side. But opposite to the frequency of fire wounding, the number of losses of Azerbaijan is incomparably big and more concretely 5 against one. And how this information corresponds to reality is difficult to say.

"But the fact that against each killed Armenian soldier the Azerbaijani army got and will get incomparably serious response is unequivocal", he said.