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There has been no announcement about the planned military exercises in Azerbaijan, while the country was obliged to provide advance notice as an OSCE member state, Deputy Minister of Defense Gabriel Balayan told reporters on Wednesday.

“Without planning it couldn’t have organized exercises of such a scale,” Balayan said, adding: “We are familiar with Azerbaijani behavior and their exercises and actions caused no surprise in Armenia. If we see threats to Armenia’s and Artsakh security, preventive actions will be taken,” Balayan’s said, adding the Armenian side have not undertaken any extraordinary measure for now, yet the troops remain vigilant.

“We are monitoring on daily basis the movement of the adversary’s troops and military equipment, any changes on the Line of Contact as well as ongoing engineering works. For now, those exercises pose no threat to the security of Armenia and Artsakh,” Balayan concluded.

To remind, the Azerbaijani army announced about a large-scale operational-tactical exercises last week. According to country’s defense ministry, the exercises involve up to 10,000 military personnel, up to 120 tanks and armored vehicles, up to 200 missiles and artillery systems of various caliber, multiple launch rocket systems.