ISLAMABAD: Azerbaijan government on Thursday rejected 'speculative and baseless' media reports, claiming the Pakistan Army was fighting alongside Azerbaijani forces against Armenia in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Pakistan Ali Alizada said it was only 'speculations and rumors' spread by the Armenian government, and hold no truth.
The press conference was held amid both Armenian and Azerbaijani forces engaged in the heaviest fighting in years over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian province that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The long-conflict erupted on September 27 with both sides blaming each other for the outbreak of violence.
The Embassy of Azerbaijan has arranged a joint press conference on the latest situation of 'Armenian military aggression and attacks against Azerbaijan' on Thursday. The ambassador appreciated the concern shown by the Foreign Office of Pakistan. The Foreign Office stated that Pakistan supported Azerbaijan's position on Nagorno-Karabakh, which was in line with the several unanimously-adopted United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.
Armenian deliberate targeting of civilian population in the towns and villages including Mingachevir, Ganja, the largest cities of Azerbaijan, left 31 civilians dead and around 150 wounded. Meanwhile, 567 houses and 72 civilian facilities were destroyed, he added.
Ali Alizada, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Pakistan stated, "We don't need war but demand justice and unconditional immediate withdrawal of troops under UN Security Council resolution and an end of occupation of Armenia".
He said the Armenian armed forces, in violation of the norms and principles of international law, in particular international humanitarian law, and the 1949 Geneva Conventions were directly targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure in order to provoke panic among Azerbaijani nation, but Azerbaijani nation was strongly united against Armenian aggression.
Attacking civilians from its own territory, Armenia aims to instigate Azerbaijan to retaliate, and as a result to involve CSTO military block into the conflict, which Armenia is member of, he added.
"Thanks to Pakistan, Turkey for their unequivocal support, and to other countries, which took the principle position, and support Azerbaijan's just cause. Karabakh is Azerbaijan," he added. Earlier, Col Mehman Novruzov, the military attaché, said that in order to ensure safety and security of civilian population, Azerbaijan Army had launched counter offensive peace enforcement operation against Armenian provocation.
By Oct 7, Azerbaijan
Army liberated a total of 25 villages.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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