AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTRY: IF ARMENIA HAS LEAST RESPECT FOR NORMS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, IT MUST FULFILL UN RESOLUTIONS
APA, Azerbaijan
March 31 2015
[ 31 March 2015 12:03 ]
Baku. Agha Jafarli – APA. “Because we are well familiar with Armenian
hypocrisy, reports of this kind do not catch us by surprise and we meet
them normally,” the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told APA on March 31.
The ministry said if the Armenians, who speak of respect for the
norms of international law everywhere, have the least respect for the
norms of international law, they must immediately and unconditionally
liberate occupied Azerbaijani lands in compliance with the UN Security
Council’s resolutions.
“If the Armenians occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijani lands, massacring
civilians and unarmed people in Khojaly and other districts under
any law, then under the same law, the Azerbaijani side sat at a tea
table with and shot photographs with an Armenian serviceman who had
surrendered to our side”.
The Armenian Defense Ministry rejected the Azerbaijani Defense
Ministry’s statement that the Armenians had suffered heavy losses, also
claiming that Azerbaijan has violated the international conventions
in its treatment toward the Armenian soldier Andranik Grigoryan,
who crossed to the Azerbaijani side with his own will.