Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Agshin Mehdiyev sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about violation of ceasefire by Armenia. The letter was circulated as an official document of the General Assembly and the UN Security Council.
The letter notes that as a result of ceasefire violations by Armenia's armed forces in December 2011 and January 2012 two Azerbaijani servicemen were killed and one civilian was wounded. The annex to the letter says that during this period the Armenian armed forces targeted both military and civilians in Azerbaijan shooting from their positions both in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and in Armenia.
The letter condemned also the statements by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on the twentieth anniversary of the country's armed forces on January 22 and at the 9th Conference of the Volunteer Homeland Defenders Union on February 18. Ambassador Mehdiyev pointed out that the statements contained "examples of blatant cynical distortion and perversion of the root causes, course and consequences of the war unleashed by Armenia against Azerbaijan."
The document also stresses that Armenia continues to increase its military presence in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
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 Azerbaijani territories since 1992, including the Nagorno Karabakh region and 7 adjacent regions.
The above mentioned information confirms that the policy of aggression, hatred and falsifications pursued by Armenia, continues to impede the efforts on settlement of the conflict on the basis of negotiations and poses serious threat for regional and international peace, security and stability.
In the document, also it is underlined that Armenia continues to increase the military presence in occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

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