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Azerbaijan warned Armenia that they would run out of negotiation opportunities following the collapse of the third humanitarian truce and affirmed its determination to resolve the conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region, either by political or military means, as battles and bombings continue. mutual between the forces of the two countries.
Shortly after the failure of the Washington-sponsored humanitarian truce, which was supposed to take effect at 8:00 a.m. Monday morning Baku and Yerevan time (GMT + 4 hours), Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev , announced that Azerbaijan had accepted the humanitarian truce to exchange prisoners and bodies, but Armenia violated it minutes later. Since its inception.
In statements made by Azerbaijani official media, Aliyev said that those calling for a humanitarian truce send weapons to Armenia and that he has a list of their names.
The Azerbaijani president stressed that his country wants to resolve the dispute over the Karabakh region by political and military means as well, and had previously stressed that his country will not wait another 30 years to liberate its territories occupied by Armenia.
On Sunday, Aliyev announced his rejection of an unconditional ceasefire and stressed the need for the withdrawal of Armenian forces from the lands they occupy in and around the Karabakh region, warning of Russia’s military intervention in the conflict.
For his part, Ilychen Amirbayov, Azerbaijan’s First Assistant Vice President, said that after the two previous truces between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which were violated by Armenia, there is no hope of their commitment to the agreement.
Amirbayov added, speaking to Al Jazeera today, that if Armenia continues to fight, it will lose the opportunity to negotiate.
On Sunday night, the US State Department announced, in a joint statement between the United States, Azerbaijan and Armenia, the humanitarian armistice that Russia had previously mediated twice, but which was not actually implemented.
Mutual accusations
In a statement today, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs held Armenia fully responsible for the violation of the armistice and said that the Yerevan government has shown its insincerity in its intention to resolve the crisis peacefully and asked it to respect international treaties and mediation.
On the other hand, Armenia claimed to adhere to the truce, but accused Azerbaijan of violating it from the first hours of its entry into force.
Armenia renewed its call for the approval of an international mechanism to verify the violation of the ceasefire, which the Minsk Group, led by the United States, Russia and France, hoped to pave the way for the end of the fighting that broke out in the region. from Nagorno Karabakh a month ago.
Regarding the details of the collapse of the truce, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that the Armenian army violated the armistice by attacking Azeri military units and bombing civilians in the city of Tartar and various sites on the front line, including the Tovuz, Keda Bey, Tash Ksen, Fozuli and Lachin regions.
On the other hand, the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement that it was Azerbaijan that violated the armistice an hour after it came into force.
The Karabakh Region Defense Ministry denied that the armistice had been violated and said Azerbaijani forces launched a missile attack on Armenian military sites on the north-eastern side of the front.
The failure of the third attempt to establish a humanitarian truce between the two sides comes at a time when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed his country’s opposition to the military solution in Karabakh.
Russia, which has a joint defense agreement with Armenia, had previously offered to deploy military observers to the front lines in the region, but Azerbaijan was not enthusiastic about this proposal.
Continuous battles
On the ground, fighting continued on various axes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces, after witnessing violent clashes in several areas the previous day, amid mutual accusations between Baku and Yerevan of targeting civilians.
Yesterday, the President of Azerbaijan announced the liberation of new villages belonging to the cities of “Zanglan”, “Gabriel” and “Qubadli”, which he described as the Armenian occupation, and stressed that his forces had taken control of 100 regions and villages. for the past four weeks.
At the same time, the Azerbaijani army announced the liberation of the city center of “Qubadli”, which was under Armenian control.
During the previous battles, the Azerbaijani army was able to control the cities of Gabriel, Fozuli and Zanglan, 3 villages, more than 130 villages and several strategic heights.
So far, Armenia has acknowledged the death of around a thousand of its soldiers, while Azerbaijan has not announced the casualties in the ranks of its army, but on the other hand, confirmed the death of 65 civilians, including 18 women and children, as a result of the Armenian bombardment of cities bordering Armenia, such as Ganja and Tatar.
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