YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan continues proving that it ignores the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov told reporters in the Parliament, commenting on the latest Azerbaijani sabotage infiltration attempts in the Nagorno Karabakh line of contact.

“Once again Azerbaijan reaffirms that it has tangled in the negotiations process and has appeared in a deadlock, perhaps even failed. I think the international community must strongly condemn such crimes of Azerbaijan. Why? Because during the meetings in Vienna and St. Petersburg, mediated by Secretary of State Kerry and then Russian President Vladimir Putin, an agreement was reached to solve the issue exclusively by a peaceful path, as well as introduce mechanisms of trust, so there won’t be any tension”, Sharmazanov said.

Sharmazanov added that the CSTO summit took place in Yerevan last week and Presidents of CSTO member states issued the Yerevan declaration, which stated the following paragraph: “The Nagorno Karabakh conflict must be settled by a peaceful path, and CSTO member states will assist this settlement”. If this is the response of Aliyev to the CSTO, to the co-chair countries, the United States, France, I think very serious assessments must be made here and the international community must realize as to who is escalating the situation in the border. I am convinced that Nagorno Karabakh has confidently carried out its functions and pushed the enemy back. This once again proves the Armed Forces of Nagorno Karbakh carry out their duties on the highest level”, Sharmazanov said.

Deputy Speaker Sharmazanov rules out a large-scale war. According to him, perhaps a large-scale war is theoretically possible; however it’s impossible in practice.

Sharmazanov once again stressed that Armenia expects a rough assessment of the international community.

Azerbaijan carried out sabotage infiltration attempts on October 20 at 23:00-23:30 in the eastern and southern directions of the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact, the Defense Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh told ARMENPRESS.

The ministry’s announcement reads: “ On October 20, at 23:00-23:30, Azerbaijan carried out sabotage infiltration attempts in the eastern and southern directions of the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact. The Defense Army units detected the advance of the Azerbaijani special forces in time and pushed them back to their starting positions by inflicting losses.

During the confrontation with the sabotage unit the Defense Army did not sustain losses.

In addition to the sabotage infiltration attempts, overnight October 20-21 Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire regime more than 50 times, firing around 2800 shots at Armenian positions from various caliber small arms.

Azerbaijani forces also used a DShK heavy machine gun in the southern directions, firing 200 shots.

The Defense Army continues maintaining full supervision in the frontline and is ready to prevent any provocative action of Azerbaijan, by inflicting a heavy blow”.