AZERBAIJAN’S WAR-HELICOPTERS FLY TO MUROVDAGH

TREND
15.09.2007 14:24:10

Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr I. Alizadeh, V. Mammadov / Between
10:00 – 11:00a.m. on 15 September, Azerbaijan’s 5 or 6 war-helicopters
implemented flights from Ganja city in the direction of Murovdagh
(chain of mountains in the west of Azerbaijan) occupied by Armenian
Armed Forces in March 1993.

According to the residents of the nearby villages, the helicopters
were flying to Azerbaijan’s military unit.

A spokesman for Azerbaijan Defence Ministry, Ilgar Verdiyev, neither
confirmed nor disproved the reports.

"The helicopters owned of the Azerbaijan Defence Ministry’s Air Forces
can implement flights over Azerbaijan. That are previously planned
trainings implemented within the framework of military trainings,"
he added.

On 14 September, Armenian Armed Forces were seen flying over
Azerbaijan’s occupied Aghdam region. The trainings being held all
day long involved heavy equipment, war-helicopters.

Verdiyev refused to comment whether the flights towards Murovdagh
implemented by Azerbaijani war-helicopters were a reply to the
Armenia’s trainings.