YEREVAN, APRIL 12, ARTSAKHPRESS. A senior lawmaker has revealed details on the April 11 unprovoked Azerbaijani attack on Armenian troops near Tegh village.
Armen Khachatryan, the Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security Affairs, told reporters that Azerbaijani troops approached the Armenian positions on a vehicle from their territory under the pretext of negotiating and demanded the Armenian troops to cease engineering works.
“Our guys gave a worthy response and the combat started after the response. The army fulfilled its objectives excellently, our soldiers gave a worthy response to the Azerbaijani provocation,” the MP said.
There was no third-party mediation in stopping the hostilities. The fighting ended as a result of the talks between Armenian and Azerbaijani military representatives, the MP said.
“The question was put this way – do we continue fighting, is this becoming a war or are we stopping it? I am sure that the fact that our army stood firmly in its positions and gave a counterblow played a big role in stopping it,” Khachatryan said.
The lawmaker said that Azerbaijan is resorting to anything in order for engineering works not to take place.
“The Armenian side is carrying out very serious engineering works there, and of course the Azerbaijanis don’t like this and they try to disrupt the work at all cost,” the MP said.
On April 11, Armenian troops carrying out engineering works near the village of Tegh close to the border with Azerbaijan came under heavy gunfire in an unprovoked attack. Four Armenian soldiers were killed and six wounded.
The situation on the frontline was “relatively stable” as of 08:00, April 12, the Armenian Ministry of Defense said in a statement earlier on Wednesday.
The Armenian military did not lose any positions in the April 11 Azerbaijani attack, it added.
No “significant ceasefire violations” by the Azerbaijani forces were recorded overnight, the ministry said.
