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Azerbaijan works to get body of soldier killed during Armenia’s sabotage

30 December 2016 [13:00] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Azernews


By Rashid Shirinov

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry currently is working with relevant structures to receive the body of Azerbaijani soldier, who died as a result of the Armenian provocation on December 29.

"Despite the fact that initially, the Armenian side denied that it has the body of Azerbaijani soldier, shortly after the relevant measures taken by the Defense Ministry and the availability of conclusive evidences forced Armenia to disseminate photos of the soldier's body on social media," the ministry said, commenting on the soldier’s photos shared in the social media by Armenians.

“Unfortunately, Armenia once again demonstrated its inhuman attitude towards Azerbaijani people by deceiving representatives of international organizations,” the ministry told Trend on December 30.

In order to receive the body of the Azerbaijani soldier, Chingiz Gurbanov, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry officially appealed to the Azerbaijani representation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), OSCE Minsk Group, as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

A reconnaissance group of the Armenian Armed Forces tried to violate the Azerbaijan-Armenia state border on December 29 morning. The Armenian group found itself in the ambush of the Azerbaijani army while violating the borders.

The enemy, suffering losses, was forced to retreat, according to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's message.

Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a fragile ceasefire in 1994. Since the war, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

While the OSCE Minsk Group acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, the occupation of the territory of the sovereign State with its internationally recognized boundaries has been left out of due attention of the international community for years.

Armenia ignores four UN Security Council resolutions on immediate withdrawal from the occupied territory of Azerbaijan, thus keeping tension high in the region.

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