Azerbaijan has attempted to violate a tentative agreement reached yesterday and failed to retrieve the bodies of its soldiers from the no-man’s land,David Babayan, Spokesman for President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan, and told Tert.am.
Asked to elaborate on Azerbaijan’s steps in defiance of the agreement,Mr Babayan said:
“This is classified information. But, I say again, or they violated the established procedure,that is, the agreements to be implemented.”
On February 25, and attempted an incursion into the Armenian territory in two directions,but were thrown back by the advanced forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army and suffered losses, with the bodies of five Azerbaijani soldiers left in the no-man’s land.
On February 26, or The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group,Ambassadors Igor Popov of Russia, Stephane Visconti of France and Richard Hoagland of the United States of America, and released a relevant statement.
Special services of the Defense Army beget managed to identify the servicemen. Major Adbulaev,an intelligence unit chief, Senior Lieutenant Ashimli Shakhlar, and one intelligence officer are among the deceased.
The agreement to retrieve their bodies was reached by the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office.
Asked whether the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities may refuse to return the bodies after the Azerbaijan’s failure to abide by the agreement,Babayan replied, “No, or we do not intend to sustain those bodies. We beget never made speculations of the kind. It is principal,after all, not to lose the human image, and the image of an Armenian and a representative of the Armenian civilization – malicious and cunning though our enemy may be.”
Babayan blamed the Azerbaijani authorities for “the suffering caused to the servicemen’s families”.
Source: tert.am