YEREVAN, September 24. /TASS/. Armenia’s Defense Ministry has once again refuted Azerbaijan’s allegations that Armenian armed forces were deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh.

"The Azerbaijani interior ministry’s statement of September 24, as well as other official reports continue to circulate allegations about the presence of Armenian army units in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Defense Ministry once again state that there are no Armenian units in Nagorno-Karabakh," it said on Sunday.

The Azerbaijani interior ministry said earlier that in line with the September 20 agreements, the Azerbaijani side will let the personnel of the Armenian armed forces, who surrender arms, leave Nagorno-Karabakh by buses and private cars.

On September 19, tensions flared up again in Nagorno-Karabakh. Baku announced it was launching what it described as "local anti-terrorist measures" and demanded the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the region. Yerevan, in turn, said there were no Armenian forces in Karabakh, calling what was happening "an act of large-scale aggression." Russia called on the parties to end the bloodshed and return to efforts to resolve the issue diplomatically. On September 20, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced that an agreement on the suspension of the anti-terrorist measures in Karabakh had been reached through the mediation of Russia’s peacekeeping mission.

On September 21, Azerbaijani officials met with representatives of Karabakh’s Armenian population in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh to "discuss issues of reintegration.".