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Council members said in the statement that they express “their support for the Secretary-General’s call on the two sides to immediately stop fighting, reduce tensions and return to constructive negotiations without delay.”
The presidential statement was issued at the end of an emergency meeting held by the Council at the request of its European member states: Belgium, Estonia, Germany, France and Great Britain.
The statement added that Council members “strongly condemn the use of force and deplore the loss of life and loss of life among civilians.”
Members of the Security Council also expressed “concern about reports of large-scale military actions along the front line” in the region.
According to diplomats, the statement approved by the council after a meeting that lasted almost an hour was proposed by the three co-chairs of the Minsk Group, which facilitated its adoption.
Armenia: We will not allow Turkey to attack our country
He said that “Azerbaijan is the one that initiated the aggression against us” and that “it would have been better for Turkey to provide advice rather than military support to Azerbaijan.”
On Tuesday, Armenia announced that Turkey had shot down one of its military aircraft, knowing that Yerevan accused Ankara of interfering in the ongoing battles between Azerbaijan and separatists loyal to Armenia in the Nagorno Karabakh region, while the Defense Ministry in Azerbaijan denied that any Armenian planes were shot down.
Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanian said on Facebook that the Armenian “Su-25” plane shot down by the Turkish F-16 fighter came from Azerbaijani lands, explaining that the Armenian pilot “fell like a martyr.”
However, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry denied that a Turkish “F-16” plane had shot down an Armenian “Sukhoi-25”.
Turkey also denied Armenia’s claim to shoot down a Turkish F-16 and an Armenian fighter jet.
“The allegations that Turkey shot down an Armenian fighter,” said Fakhruddin Alton, media director for the Turkish presidency.
In a statement, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that the battles took place around the city of Fizuli, while the Armenian army shelled the Dashkasan region on the border between the two countries, miles from Nagorny Karabakh.
Armenia, for its part, denied these reports but reported fighting overnight and said the Nagorno Karabakh army repelled attacks in various directions along the line of contact, accusing Azerbaijan of expanding its aggression with the support of military and political of Turkey.
Armenia and Azerbaijan said they deployed heavy artillery in their last round of fighting on Tuesday in the separated Nagorno Karabakh region.
Aliyev: Ankara supports Baku … and does not have a direct role in the conflict
In an interview with the official Russian television “Russia-24”, Aliyev described Ankara’s role as a “stabilizing factor” in the region, but confirmed that it did not contribute to it on the battlefield, accusing the Armenian side of spreading “fake news”, even speaking of Azerbaijani forces receive support from Turkish F-16 fighters.
In the same context, Aliyev denied the arrival of Syrian fighters to support the Azerbaijani army, saying: “This is another fake news. There are no fighters from Syria. These are Armenian rumors spread by the Internet and various media.”
He added that Armenia is trying to provoke his country and “insult the Azeri army, which is doing its duty with honor and trying to show that a third country is interfering in the conflict,” and emphasized that his country’s army is ” sufficiently prepared to defend his land and his people for himself. “
Aliyev stressed that the fighting continued and that the Azerbaijani army was able to liberate strategic areas from the “Armenian occupation”.
Aliyev accused Armenia of deliberately obstructing the negotiation process, while Azerbaijan follows a “constructive policy” in this regard.
