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“The Azerbaijani representatives, again by abusing this platform, deliver provocative statements instead of addressing its theme - the cooperation within the Eastern Partnership,” Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian stated at a joint press conference on Monday, following the Informal Ministerial Meeting of Eastern Partnership in Chisinau, Moldova.

At the meeting with the media representatives, FM Nalbandian responded to the comments of the representative of the Azerbaijani delegation over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

“The security in our region continues to be challenged by the persistent threats of Azerbaijan to use force in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. On April 2016 Azerbaijan unleashed a large scale aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh that was accompanied by grave violations of international humanitarian law, atrocities against civilian population, including children, women and elderly persons, mutilation of the bodies, Daesh-style beheadings,” he said.

The minster underscored that on July 4, the Azerbaijani leadership once again resorted to the tactics of notorious terrorist organizations and as many times before used its civilian population as a human shield for shelling the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh by heavy weaponry, including by TR-107 multiple rocket launcher systems. In response, the Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh was obliged to exercise self-defense against the aggressive actions of the Azerbaijani side.

As long as Azerbaijan fails to implement its international commitments under 1994-1995 trilateral ceasefire agreements, refuses to implement the Vienna and St. Petersburg Summit commitments, especially on the creation of the mechanism for investigation of the ceasefire violations, that can become also a mechanism for prevention, the Azerbaijani leadership bears full responsibility for all consequences,” Mr. Nalbandian added.