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    Trend, Azerbaijan
    July 2 2011


    Azerbaijan's ambassador to UN sends letter to Secretary General over
    cease-fire violations by Armenia
    [02.07.2011 21:49]
    Azerbaijan, Baku, July 2 /Trend, R Darakhshan /

    Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the UN Agshin Mehdiyev has
    sent a letter to the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, says a statement
    by the country's permanent mission to the United Nations.

    The letter contains a list of violations of the ceasefire by Armenia
    in May this year and reports that two Azerbaijani soldiers were killed
    and one was seriously injured as their result.

    The paper also notes that over the last months the armed forces of
    Armenia intensified attacks on Azerbaijani civilians and civilian
    objects. On March 8, a nine-year-old Azerbaijani child was shot dead
    by an Armenian sniper, on May 26, the civilian population of the
    Chiragli village of the Agdam district of Azerbaijan was subjected to
    continuous fire by the armed forces of Armenia and on June 3 Elmar
    Piriyev, a resident of the Aghjabadi district of the country, was
    killed by Armenian militaries in the Chemenli village of the Agdam
    district situated near the front line.

    "Besides such inhuman and unjustifiable actions, the high-ranking
    officials of Armenia continued their irresponsible statements and
    provocative visits to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, thus
    openly and deliberately challenging the international mediation
    efforts aimed at the soonest settlement of the conflict", the document
    says.

    The letter says that in an interview on May 16 to the Moskovskie
    Novosti (Moscow News) newspaper, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan
    confirmed once again that the Armenian side considers the conflict
    settlement process only as a means of achieving the annexation of
    Azerbaijani territories.

    "The views of the President of Armenia about the relevant
    international legal principles and their application and scope in the
    context of the settlement of the conflict unambiguously testify to the
    fundamental and persistent denial by this State Member of the United
    Nations of the generally accepted norms and principles of
    international law", the letter says.

    The letter was also circulated in the General Assembly and UN Security Council.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are
    currently holding the peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
    surrounding regions.

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