Azerbaijan continues thinking up new versions regarding Stepanakert Airport

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 18, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijani authorities keep using international forums for pushing forward their policy of lie. Being quite impotent to prevent the exploitation of Stepanakert Airport Azerbaijan continues searching for new ways for groundless accusations and staining reputation of the Republic of Armenia. This time the position of official Baku regarding Stepanakert Airport was declared by the permanent representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations in New York Agshin Mehdiyev. As reports "Armenpress" citing Azerbaijani 1news.az, this was announced by Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elman Abdullayev.

For this time again Mehdiyev tried to put forward Azerbaijani version about "illegal attempts of the Armenian side to exploit Stepanakert Airport". The permanent representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations mentioned in his letter the following: "By these attempts Armenia shows its disrespect towards international law and damages the process of peaceful regulation by causing disturbances about security in the region". Complaining about Artsakh Air Company airlines founded by the Armenian side he turned to the UNO member states to abstain from any cooperation and with Stepanakert Airport and Artsakh Air Company.

The Airport of Stepanakert was built in 1974 and received flights mainly from Yerevan and Baku. From 1992 the Airport was idle. In 2008 the construction of the new main building of the Airport was launched, which is analogous to an eagle with opened wings. Within this period of time the runway has been widened as well and the peaks of some hills adjacent to the runway have been evened, so that the reception of the modern large airplanes has become possible.

From the very beginning of the reconstruction and re-equipment works of the Airport of Stepanakert the Azerbaijani authorities have threatened that in case of the Airport's functioning, they would shoot down the civil airplanes. These announcements made by Azerbaijani side have been condemned by the international community as well.