The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan continued for the ninth day on Monday despite both countries rejecting the international community’s call to end the war. The fighting for the region began on September 27 and has escalated to its deadliest level since the 1990s.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has put forward some conditions to end the war saying that if Armenia accepts these conditions, Azerbaijan will stop the war. Aliyev said the Armenian army has occupied the territory it had lost in the 1990s and is deliberately inciting war.
If the Armenian army immediately withdraws from the territory, fully describes the withdrawal period and apologizes for what it has done, then Azerbaijan is ready to end the war.
This is the only way: Aliyev said that Armenia must accept the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, this is the only way to end the war. He further said that the international community has not implemented the UN resolutions and has pressed the withdrawal of the Armenian army from the areas of influence of Azerbaijan.
Intention: It is clear from Aliyev’s position that he has no intention of accepting the ceasefire request from Russia, the United States and the EU. At the same time, immediately after Aliyev’s speech, the Armenian Defense Ministry also issued a statement. The Ministry said that there is no threat to us, but still, we are ready to deal with every situation. Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had also made it clear that he is not ready for talks with Azerbaijan.
This is the greatest danger: Both Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of inciting war. Civilians have also been targeted by both sides. Seeing the danger of the participation of superpowers like Russia in this war, an appeal is made to both nations to resolve the dispute with peace. Several countries, including the United States, have called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop the war. The danger of Russia, Turkey, France, Iran and Israel joining the war has also increased.
This is the root of the dispute: The main reason for the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which was part of the former Soviet Union, is the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan calls the mountainous region of this region as its own, while Armenia has occupied this region. The area has been under Armenian occupation since the fighting ended in 1994. Also in 2016, there was a bloody war between the two countries over this area, in which 200 people died. Now both countries are face to face again.
Aliyev said on Monday that Turkey should participate in the peace process for the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Reuters reported citing the RIA news agency. Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh territory resumed on Monday morning, with both sides accusing each other of launching attacks.
Armenian military officials on Monday reported missile strikes that hit Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. The region is located in Azerbaijan, but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the end of the separatist war in 1994. Shootings of varying intensity continue “in the conflict zone,” the spokeswoman said on Facebook. of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, Shushan Stepanian. .
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, in turn, accused the Armenian forces of bombing the cities of Tartar, Barda and Beylagan. Ganja, Azerbaijan’s second-largest city away from the conflict zone, is also under fire, authorities said. The Armenian Foreign Ministry in a statement dismissed accusations that the attacks were launched from the territory of Armenia as a disinformation campaign carried out by Azerbaijan.
Vahram Poghosyan, a spokesman for the Nagorno-Karabakh leader, warned in a Facebook post on Monday that the territory’s forces would attack military installations in Azerbaijani cities in response to the attacks in Stepanakert and Shushi, a city in Nagorno-Karabakh. Fighting broke out on September 27 and has killed dozens, marking the largest escalation in conflict in decades in the region. Both sides have accused each other of expanding hostilities beyond the conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Nagorno-Karabakh officials have said that nearly 200 military personnel on their side have been killed in the clashes so far. Eighteen civilians have died and more than 90 have been injured. Azerbaijani authorities have not provided details on their military casualties, but said 24 civilians were killed and 121 more injured.
Nagorno-Karabakh was a designated autonomous region within Azerbaijan during the Soviet era. She claimed the independence of Azerbaijan in 1991, about three months before the collapse of the Soviet Union. A large-scale war that broke out in 1992 killed some 30,000 people. When the war ended in 1994, Armenian forces were occupying not only Nagorno-Karabakh, but substantial areas outside the formal borders of the territory.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly said that Armenia’s withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh is the only condition for ending the fighting. Armenian officials allege that Turkey is involved in the conflict on the Azerbaijani side and is sending fighters from Syria to the region. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said a ceasefire can only be established if Turkey is withdrawn from the South Caucasus. The Turkish government has denied the shipment of weapons or foreign fighters, while publicly siding with Azerbaijan in the dispute.
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