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Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of violating the Nagorno Karabakh ceasefire.
Azerbaijan and Armenia exchanged accusations of violating the ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh, hours after the truce declared between the two countries came into force this morning (Saturday), after two weeks of intense battles in the disputed region. While Baku accused Yerevan of “flagrantly” violating the ceasefire, Armenia accused Azerbaijan of ignoring the ceasefire agreed in Moscow.
Before the ceasefire, the two sides exchanged accusations of continuing the bombing operations.
An Armenian official said Azerbaijani missiles bombed the capital of Nagorno Karabakh before the ceasefire went into effect, in an attempt to change the military situation on the ground before the ceasefire, and the Armenian president called on NATO to pressure Turkey to stop military support to Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan, for its part, accused Armenia of heavily bombing residential areas before the truce took effect.
And Moscow announced early today that the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia had reached an agreement providing for a ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh, after talks that lasted 10 hours.
The Russian Foreign Ministry indicated that the two sides agreed that the agreement would enter into force at 8:00 GMT on Saturday, October 10.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that “Azerbaijan and Armenia will initiate, with the mediation of the co-chairs of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on the basis of the basic principles of the settlement, substantive negotiations with the objective of to reach a peaceful settlement as soon as possible. “
The two sides highlighted the start of the process of exchanging prisoners, other detainees and corpses as soon as the agreement enters into force in Karabakh, with the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Negotiations began on Friday night between Armenia and Azerbaijan regarding the conflict between the two sides over the Nagorno Karabakh region in the Russian capital Moscow, while Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev insisted that his country not would make no concessions in the talks with Armenia, and predicted that Armenia will continue to regard Nagorno Karabakh as part of which the talks may fail.
The agreement between the two parties came in the context of an appeal by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the parties to the conflict in the disputed Karabakh region between Azerbaijan and Armenia to halt the fighting on humanitarian grounds.
And Russia announced earlier on Friday that Armenia and Azerbaijan had agreed to participate in negotiations in Moscow aimed at ending the battles in Nagorno Karabakh, after Russian President Vladimir Putin called for it to take place, while a A statement issued by the French presidency awaited the announcement of a truce tonight or tomorrow. In Nagorno Karabakh.
The official balance of the battles since September 27 has reached 300 to 400 dead, including civilians, but these figures remain partial, since Baku does not announce its military casualties, and both sides confirm that the other has inflicted thousands of deaths. among his soldiers.
The resumption of fighting raises fears abroad of the “internationalization” of the conflict in a region where the interests of Russia, Turkey, Iran and the West overlap, especially since Baku has Turkish support, while Moscow has a military treaty with Yerevan.
Turkey has been accused of interfering in the conflict by sending teams and forces.
Putin, who plays the role of arbiter in the region, warned that should the battles spread outside Karabakh to reach Armenia, Moscow would fulfill its “obligations” under its military alliance with Yerevan.
Source: Agencies
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