Armenpress

AZERIS DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF CEASEFIRE BREACHES

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS: Armenian troops
have registered this year 581 instances of ceasefire
breaches by Azerbaijani troops along the
Armenian-Azerbaijani border, a significant rise from
273 breaches last year.
A spokesman for the Armenian defense ministry
Seyran Shahsuvarian said Armenian troops had to
retaliate to only 58 breaches. He said this year Azeri
troops used large-caliber machine guns and grenade cup
dischargers when violating the ceasefire.
Three Armenian villages of Voskepar, Aygepar and
Chinar, all located in the north western province of
Tavush, were shelled by Azeris eight times each.
Shahsuvarian denied Azeri allegations that Armenian
troops breached the truce 220 times.
Senor Hasratian, a spokesman for the defense
ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh, said Armenian troops of
Karabakh never opened fire at their own initiative and
had to retaliate only in several instances.
He said they never calculated the number of cease
breaches as Azeri troops breach it actually on a
regular basis.