YEREVAN, March 8. /TASS/. The Armenian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called for sending an international fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh to verify statements by Azerbaijan that allege Armenia deployed its troops there.

"Armenia has said multiple times that no ammunition or military-purpose goods were transported along the Lachin Corridor, either before or after its blockade on December 12, 2022. In addition, we reaffirm that the Republic of Armenia doesn’t have an army in Nagorno-Karabakh," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "The proposal to send an international fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh to verify the credibility of this information has been repeatedly rejected by the top leadership of Azerbaijan."

"Reaffirming Armenia's desire to achieve peace in the region, we once again emphasize the need for the immediate dispatch of an international fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin Corridor to prevent Azerbaijan from unleashing a new aggression and Azerbaijan's clear preparations to subject the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to ethnic cleansing and genocide," the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in the statement.

The ministry also denied that Azerbaijan’s statement that Armenia had sent a column of military vehicles on the Stepanakert-Lisagor road on March 7 and used the same road to transport its troops.