"Azerbaijani news agencies distort the facts"

11/skirmish
11:51 am | September 11, 2009 | Official

Armenia’s Defence Ministry today issued a statement refuting Azeri
media allegations about yesterday’s skirmish at the contact-line which
reportedly left five victims.

"Azerbaijani media reported yesterday about an exchange of fire in
Agdam district which left five Armenian servicemen killed and three
injured. Spokesman for the NKR Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant Colonel
Senor Hasratian refuted the information.

Later in the day the Azeri side decided to charge the obvious
misinformation by fake facts and publish a photo of the "killed"
Armenian serviceman. The article is available in Russian on Vesti.az
which also published an interview with an Azeri military expert Uzeir
Jafarov. To the question how they could speak of an exact number of
victims, if the bodies were not found, the Azeri expert said: "Any
attack is accompanied by losses, irrespective of the fact whether the
Armenian side reveals the number of victims or not."

"Azeri media are again cheating and distorting facts in an effort to
raise fighting spirit of its army and public simultaneously
destabilizing the situation. In fact, the photo at Vesti.az is a shot
of 2008 August war in Georgia with a dead Georgian soldier taken by RF
Communist Party official website

(). To make sure it is true,
you can visit the photo session of the website."