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Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Garen Nazarian has sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon where he draws Secretary General’s attention to the systematic violation of ceasefire by Azerbaijan.

“Azerbaijani armed forces target Armenian positions and settlements on a daily basis along the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan and the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border,” it is stated in the letter.

According the document in January the Azerbaijani forces were intensely firing in the direction of villages in Tavush region of Armenia. There were reports of casualties from Armenian as well as Azerbaijani side. “We are deeply concerned with regard to these incidents, and feel sorrow for the lost lives of the young soldiers,” said the Permanent Representative in his letter.

According to Nazarian, such systematic violations of international law by Azerbaijan, namely the principle of non-use of threat and force pose a serious threat to the peace and security of the region.

There is a solid ground to conclude that the actions of certain Azerbaijani detachments are either not properly subject to a chain of command or that these provocations are deliberately intended to destabilize the situation in the region, it is stated in the letter.

“As for the allegations of the Azerbaijani propaganda machine, claiming that the Armenian side violates the ceasefire regime at different parts of the line of contact, I would like to inform you that the dissemination of this kind of misinformation is part of the pitiful attempts made by representatives of the Azerbaijani Government at different levels to mislead broader international opinion, as well as its own public opinion,” said the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN.

He has noted that such provocations emphasize the importance of complying with ceasefire agreement concluded on a trilateral basis, as well as of implementing the proposals to withdraw snipers and create an investigative mechanism on ceasefire violations.

The unequivocal commitment to the ceasefire and confidence building by the parties concerned will definitely serve as a crucial factor in creating a conducive environment for the peace process, the letter reads. According to him every death of a soldier or a civilian on the border creates new serious predicaments on the way of the settlement of the conflict.