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Civilians’ return to liberated lands in Nakhchivan is irrefutable fact [UPDATE]

27 June 2018 [12:41] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Rashid Shirinov

The counter-offensive operation carried out by the Azerbaijani army in the Nakhchivan direction was a knockout punch for the Armenian side, which is confirmed once again by the regular discussions in the Armenian press about the “Gunnut Operation,” Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend on June 27.

The ministry was commenting on the information that allegedly a group of Armenian media representatives, as if nothing happened, visited the frontline in the Nakhchivan direction.

Azerbaijani Defense Ministry noted that the military-political leadership of Armenia, which has not recovered from the successful operation of the Azerbaijani army and which is unable to realize the defeat, is trying to justify itself through various fabrications because of the fear of its people.

“Armenia, which has no weighty facts to respond to the photo and video footage demonstrated by the Azerbaijani side from the liberated territories, has no other choice but to organize “press tours” to some unknown mountain territories,” the ministry noted.

It added that the return of the civilian population of Azerbaijan to the liberated territories in Nakhchivan is an irrefutable fact that is not subject to discussion.

As a result of successful actions in May 2018, the village of Gunnut in Sharur region and strategic heights of Khunut (2,065 meters), Gizilgaya (1,683 meters) and Mehridag (1,869 meters), located around the village, came under the control of Azerbaijani units.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan by laying territorial claims on the country. Since a war in the early 1990s, 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.

To this day, Armenia has not implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions.

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