Azerbaijan turned to the International Court of Justice
Azerbaijan The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reports that Armenia 2020year 10 illegal in their territory contrary to paragraph 4 of the November declaration military did not fully withdraw the forces.
In the information released by the Ministry on October 24, it is also noted that Armenia Azerbaijan continues to place anti-personnel mines in its territories: “This leads to an increase in the number of people falling into mines not only along the former contact line, but also in other areas.”
The ministry emphasized that the number of landmine victims in Azerbaijan in the last 30 years was 3,345: “2020-year Homeland (Second Karabakh 266 from the end of the war) until today Azerbaijan citizen was injured by a mine explosion. Among them, 45 people, including three journalists perished has been Destruction 35 out of 45 people are civilians”.
It was added that the starting point of the battles on September 12-13 this year was also using the darkness and complex terrain. Armenia attempted to mine security routes between the positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces: “… After the signing of the tripartite statement, it is known that the reliability of the small part of the mine maps, which Armenia initially denied the existence of mine maps, later presented as a result of international pressure, is only 25 percent. “Approximately 55 percent of recent mine explosions took place in areas outside the maps handed over by Armenia.”
In the end, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that in September of this year, Azerbaijan officially informed the International Court of Justice about the continuation of mining of territories by Armenia and presented the relevant evidence.
At the moment, the attitude of the official institutions of Armenia to this statement is not clear. However, in response to such statements, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nicole Pashinyan this year he said that they kept the good maps in the drawer and didn’t give the bad ones: “There are always attempts to turn this process into an object of trade on various topics… I think that we cannot talk about peace while ignoring the humanitarian side of the issue.”
Moreover, the Armenian side is two countries this year on the border blames Azerbaijan for the battles that took place on September 12-13. Armenian officials say that Azerbaijan military His servants entered their territory at that time. At that time, about 80 from the Azerbaijani side, and from the Armenian side 20More than 0 military personnel perished was announced. Later, the ceasefire between the parties was restored.
As for the issue of not withdrawing the Armenian soldiers from the territory of Azerbaijan, the secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan made a statement about it this year. According to him, there will be no conscripts from Armenia in Karabakh, but conscripts from Nagorno-Karabakh will be involved in the defense army as before.
44-day Second in 2020 Karabakh As a result of the war, Azerbaijan regained control over a part of Karabakh and 7 surrounding districts. Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia with a joint statement signed by the management (10 November) after the cessation of hostilities in the Lachin Corridor and the contact line in Karabakh Russian peacekeepers placed.
In paragraph 4 of the document it was written:Russia The peacekeeping contingent of the Federation is being deployed in parallel with the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces…”.
Started in 1988 Karabakh conflict Azerbaijan and Armenia caused fights between Until the cease-fire agreement in 1994 Azerbaijan The Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 adjacent districts were occupied.