Azeri army spokesman reaffirms right to liberate Armenian-occupied land
Day.az website, Baku
11 Aug 07
11 August: "Our army is capable of liberating the occupied lands.
No-one – neither international organizations nor Armenians – can make
claims regarding the conduct of military-tactical operations on the
territories occupied by the Armenian army," Eldar Sabiroglu, spokesman
for the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry, has said in a comment on
accusations in the Armenian media that the Azerbaijani army is bringing
its positions closer to the forward line of the Armenian armed forces.
Moreover, Sabiroglu described as a lie the claims by officials of
Armenia and self-styled Nagornyy Karabakh that fires on the occupied
territories were connected with the hot weather.
Sabiroglu said that Armenians are setting fire to grass in the occupied
part of Karabakh with the barbarous aim of harming Azerbaijan. He also
added that all international organizations, as well as the personal
representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office on the Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict, Andrzej Kasprzyk, have been informed of fires on Azerbaijani
territories.