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The Azerbaijani army has launched a new large-scale attack on the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Nagorno-Karabakh President Arajik Harutjunjan told reporters that he would join those fighting on the front lines.
According to a statement from the Armenian Defense Ministry, the region is also under attack from the north and south. Three Azerbaijani fighter jets were shot down, the ministry added.
Arajik in Harutjunja President Karabakh (pictured) told reporters that he would join the front-line fighters because there was a greater need. Harutjunja has been leading the separatist enclave since May this year, and nearly 90 percent of voters voted for him in the elections. “The nation and the homeland are in danger and in danger for our right to independence and our right to live with dignity in the area that we have redeemed with our blood,” he declared. Harutjunjan also participated in the first war between Armenia and Azerbaijan three decades earlier.
In clashes that began last Sunday between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the French news agency AFP said 158 Karabakh soldiers, as well as 14 Armenians and 19 Azerbaijani civilians, were killed and several wounded. The Armenian side said that at least 3,000 Azerbaijani soldiers had been killed, while the Azerbaijani side reported that at least 2,300 Armenian soldiers had lost their lives in clashes in recent days.
Seeing a resurgence of tensions, the international community has called for a ceasefire. Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Yerevan is ready to start talks on the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh through the mediation of states participating in the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation. in Europe (OSCE).
Nagorno-Karabakh, which was inhabited mainly by Armenians and has a population of around 145,000, has been the subject of open debate between Baku and Yerevan since February 1988. The area was ravaged by Azerbaijan as a result of the 1992-1994 war. with the support of Armenia, in which 30,000 people lost their lives and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee.
The provincial parliament declared the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh in 1996, but this has not been recognized by any country, not even Armenia. Azerbaijan continues to regard the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave as its own territory, as does Armenia essentially. The ceasefire that has been in force since 1994 is regularly violated by both sides.
MTI, image: AFP
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