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“The Azerbaijani statement is a simple information trap, and it does not mean a unilateral ceasefire. The NKR MOD will [shortly] give official statement”, - Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the spokesperson for the Armenian Ministry of Defense wrote on his Facebook page.

In the past hour leading international news agencies picked up the line from Russian RIA Novosti, which published the Azerbaijani MOD spokesperson statement alleging that Baku decided “to halt violence in response to international calls”.

#BREAKING Azerbaijan announces 'unilateral' ceasefire in Karabakh

— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 3, 2016

The Ministry of Defense of Nagorno Karabakh Republic has yet not confirmed this reports. However, David Babayan, the spokesperson for the President of Nagorno Karabakh, denounced the reports in a comment to tert.am, urging to consider this as “usual Azeri practice of reporting one thing and acting completely differently”, since in the past 24 hours Azerbaijan had already declared commitment to cease fire, but failed to do so.

The UN Security Council adopted four resolutions between April and November, 1993, calling for “effective and permanent” ceasefire, as well as “immediate implementation of the reciprocal and urgent steps” in that direction. Azerbaijan has intensified violations of the ceasefire regime within the past few years, despite the calls from the OSCE Minsk Group co-Chair countries and wider international community to adhere to peaceful resolution of the conflict.