According to the instruction of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Ilham Aliyev, the leadership of the Ministry of Defence visited the frontline zone and met with staff who serve on the front line.
Defense Minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov addressed the personnel, said:
"Despite the efforts of Azerbaijan, the military-political leadership of Armenia has not taken any positive steps to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Due to the destructive position of the enemy there is no progress in the negotiation process, international law is violated. As noted by the Supreme Commander, giving effect to their dirty tactics, Armenia once again is trying to remove the issue from the world agenda and to extend the time. We must not allow this, and the conflict should find its speedy solution.
The provocations of the enemy on the front line continue and eventually become more and more. Our Army decidedly prevents such provocations and more stringent measures will be taken in the future.
We have the full information about the performance characteristics of the rockets demonstrated by Armenia. It did not change the military balance in the region in favor of the enemy. We have achieved superiority in all directions. And in response to the possible use by an enemy of some rockets, our Armed Forces, using thousands of rockets and the military means of the latest models available at their armament are able to not only shoot down these rockets, but also to destroy all the enemy's military infrastructure, regardless of the distance of its location. All threats of the enemy on the use of these rockets are nothing but a tale.
April's battle had to serve as a lesson for the enemy to be learnt. However, they have not learned any lesson from this. The responses to next provocations will be much more destructive and crushing, the enemy will be completely collapsed.