Public Television of Armenia
Sept 12 2009
Karabakh denies report of Azeri choppers crossing into its airspace
The defence ministry [of Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagornyy Karabakh] has
dismissed the Haykakan Zhamanak daily report that eight to ten
Azerbaijani helicopters crossed the contact line of the Nagornyy
Karabakh republic [NKR] in the direction of Agdam on 11 September. In
connection with this, Karabakh defence ministry spokesman Lt-Col Senor
Hasratyan said that yesterday [11 September] the air defence
subdivisions of the Artsakh [Karabakh] army recorded the flying of
helicopters on the Azerbaijani territory, six to seven km from the
contact line. But this was on the Azerbaijani territory and the
Armenian side took no action to respond.
Nagornyy Karabakh’s air borders are being constantly controlled by the
air defence subdivisions of Artsakh and any attempt to violate the
border will be decisively stopped, the defence ministry spokesman
said.