Azerbaijani MoD calls on Russian peacekeepers not to use fictitious Armenian toponyms

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence called on the Russian peacekeepers to prevent the provocative actions of Armenians.

"The list and a map of settlements of the Karabakh economic region of the Republic of Azerbaijan with names corresponding to the Azerbaijani toponyms were officially submitted by Azerbaijan to the Russian Defence Ministry, the previous and current commanders of the Russian peacekeeping contingent stationed on the territory of Azerbaijan, as well as the Joint Turkish-Russian Monitoring Center," the ministry said in a statement, Caliber.Az reports.

"Nevertheless, unfortunately, in the official information of the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation, published on the official website of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, our settlements are indicated with fictitious Armenian toponyms.

So, in the official information of the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation dated November 24, 2022, it is reported that Azerbaijan allegedly violated the ceasefire in the direction of the Magavuz settlement. We bring to the attention of the Russian side that the official name of the Azerbaijani settlement called "Magavuz" is CHARDAGLY. The divisions of the Azerbaijan Army did not violate the ceasefire regime and did not fire in this direction.

At the same time, we also declare that the information provided to the Russian side about recent ceasefire violations by illegal Armenian armed groups and other incidents, for some reason, is not reflected in the official statements of the Russian peacekeeping contingent.

On November 23, at the invitation of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan, the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent temporarily deployed on the territory of Azerbaijan and the leadership of the Joint Turkish-Russian Monitoring Center examined the section of the Armenian-made PMN-E anti-personnel mine, planted by Armenian illegal armed groups in the northern direction of the Sarybaba height, discovered by the engineering and fortification units of the Azerbaijan Army.

During the inspection, it was noted that our units discovered and defused only 350 anti-personnel mines produced in Armenia in 2021. Unfortunately, there was no official information from the Russian peacekeeping contingent in this regard.

We call on the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent temporarily deployed on the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan to indicate in the relevant information the names of settlements on the territory of our country with the correct toponyms and strictly suppress all provocative actions of illegal Armenian military units, including mining of territories," the ministry said.