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Armenian Ambassador-at-Large Edmon Marukyan has rejected Azerbaijan’s accusations of laying mines, stressing that Yerevan has given Baku all maps of minefields.

Marukyan responded to Azerbaijani presidential assistant Hikmet Hajiyev, who accused Armenia of “mine terror”.

“Till today, the Armenian parties have taken all the necessary steps, in the context of confidence building, including handing over all the landmine maps to Azerbaijan, but in response, Azerbaijan continues to make false accusations about ongoing installation of minefields and contrary to the agreements didn't even release prisoners of war and other people in its prisons as a measure to build confidence,” Marukyan said in a post on X (Twitter).

“Azerbaijan regularly attacks and occupies different parts of the sovereign territory of Armenia, violates the fundamental obligations of November 9 and keeps the people of Nagorno Karabakh under a complete blockade.

“It would be better for Hikmet Hajiyev to stop this campaign of falsehood, because it by no means can distract the attention of the international community from the topic of ethnic cleansing policy conducted by Azerbaijan,” he emphasized.