The Azerbaijani representation of the transnational oil company British Petroleum has issued a statement regarding the ongoing events in Nagorno-Karabakh.
"We are especially worried about yesterday's reports of a missile attack, which was intercepted and destroyed by Azerbaijan's air defense systems in the vicinity of BTC and SCP export pipelines. While the Azerbaijani government provides the security of all assets in which BP operates on behalf of the Azerbaijan government and our partners, we continue to work closely with the relevant authorities to take necessary measures to protect our personnel, operations, and assets.
We express our deep concern about the military attacks against civilian settlements and infrastructure and hope the conflict will soon find a just resolution within Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and internationally recognized sovereign territories," the company said.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, the Armenian armed forces are deliberately using demilitarized and civilian settlements as targets. During a military operation, the village of Arani in the Yevlakh district, located 50 kilometers from the fire line, was bombed. The Smerch 9M525 cluster missile of the Armenian Armed Forces, consisting of 300-mm reactive projectiles, was defused by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, leaving part of the shell in the village of Arani, near the South Caucasus Oil Pipeline, part of it fell 120 meters from the western oil pipeline to the Black Sea coast. The rest of the shell fell 100 meters from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline going through the village.
