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The weaponry displayed at the military parade in Khankendi indicates that Armenia is in breach of its obligations as an end-user under arms import operations, including, in particular, by exporting or transferring procured armaments without the agreement of the exporting States, and not reporting these operations within the existing information exchange mechanism of OSCE.

Mi-8MT and Mi-24 type attack helicopters demonstrated at the parade in Khankendi have been listed in the annual information exchange of Armenia in the framework of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and the OSCE Vienna Document, and belong to the 15th Aviation Base dislocated in Yerevan

9K72 “Elbrus” operational-tactical missile systems (“Scud-B” in North Atlantic Treaty Organization classification), which for the first time had been displayed at the parade held in Yerevan on 21 September 2011, were also paraded in Khankendi as a weapon system belonging to the armed forces of Armenia

The almost identical scenarios and modalities of military parades held in Yerevan and Khankendi demonstrate that both parades had been planned, equipped, trained, organized and orchestrated from the same military chain of command in Armenia

Otherwise, the Armenian leadership should explain how the demonstrated types of weapons (see annexed photos), including unmanned spy aircraft which are reportedly manufactured in Armenia and which were presented publicly for the first time at a military parade in Armenia on 21 September 2011, appeared in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

In my previous letter, dated 16 May 2012 (A/66/808-S/2012/330), on a military parade held by the leadership of the Republic of Armenia in the city of Khankendi (occupied Daghlyq Garabagh region of Azerbaijan), on the basis of analysis of the types of weaponry demonstrated at the parade, I presented irrefutable facts attesting to Armenia’s political and military control over, and its continuing military build-up in, the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

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