The head of the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan has recently come up with a number of announcements, where he has disseminated the recurrent lie about the RA population, the AF recruitment and about frontier incidents. The information, that Armenia has lack of human resource and is unable to raise certain sub-units, is very far from being true. In this regard the RA Ministry of Defence announces – the autumn roll-call advances according to the schedule and about 70% of the troop recruitment has already been realized.

As for the frontier incidents, it is worth mentioning, that the announcement of the head of the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan E. Sabiroghli, that the Armenian side has had twice more losses than the Azerbaijani side, is also a misinformation: during the last three months two Armenian soldiers were wounded, because the Azerbaijani side broke the ceasefire. It is more than obscure that the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan should come to such a conclusion, while it has never announced the number of victims and the wounded both from Armenian and from Azerbaijani side. In this regard the Azerbaijani media themselves have expressed their doubt. It is noteworthy, that this “sabiroghlian” self-deception has been disseminated only in Russian, thus it bears a propagandistic nature and is mostly intended for its compatriots. It is also worth reminding, that the information disseminated by the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan is the imitation of the “guideline” ideas from the speech of the president of Azerbaijan Aliev, made on the 17th of November, 2009. Once again we underline that the RA and NKR Armed Forces have high battle readiness and the necessary armaments for giving appropriate counterblow to any encroachment. RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs