POLITICS
Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to UN sends letter to UN Secretary-General
Washington, April 19 (AZERTAC). Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations, Ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev has sent a new letter to UN Secretary General over Armenian sniper`s killing nine-year-old Fariz Badalov.
The letter reads: “I draw particular attention to the fact that this appalling crime was committed just three days after a meeting between the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, held in Sochi on 5 March 2011. I want to draw your attention to ongoing violations of the ceasefire by the armed forces of Armenia, recorded for the months of February and March 2011. As the result, during this period two Azerbaijani soldiers and one civilian were killed and four members of the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan were wounded”.
“According to mass media reports, confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, conscripts Gevork Kotiniyan and Torgom Sarukhanyan were killed by their companions-in-arms on 6 February and 12 March 2011 respectively,” the Ambassador mentioned.
“The investigation of both cases is being carried out by the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia under that country`s Criminal Code. Accordingly, as in previous similar instances, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia exercises its investigative powers beyond the territory of Armenia, and that country`s Criminal Code applies to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan,” Mehdiyev said in his letter.
According to the Ambassador, during the month of February and March, 105 cases of violations of the ceasefire by the military forces of Armenia have occurred.