President Ilham Aliyev, during a telephone conversation with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said that in recent weeks, the Armenian side has been abusing the location of the European Union mission in this country and has pursued a policy aimed at deliberately escalating the situation, along the Azerbaijan-Armenia state border and in the Azerbaijani territories where Russian peacekeepers are temporarily stationed. drew attention to the intensive violations of the ceasefire by the forces and illegal Armenian military units.

According to APA, the Press Service of the President released information about this.

In this regard, the President of Azerbaijan noted the martyrdom of 2 of our servicemen as a result of provocation by illegal Armenian units on March 5, 2023, and the further provocation of Armenia on the day of Nowruz holiday - March 20, in the part of the Azerbaijan-Armenia state border passing through the territory of Zangilan district. He noted that a serviceman of his service was injured.