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The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan arrived in Moscow for separate diplomatic consultations on the conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region, while the Armenian President is discussing the conflict with officials of the European Union and NATO, this comes in a time when clashes continue between the two parties in Karabakh on various fronts.
A spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Manatsakyanian announced that the latter would meet with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss “the establishment of a ceasefire agreement.”
For its part, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that its minister, Jihon Bayramov, arrived in Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
No joint meeting has yet been announced. At the previous joint meeting, which was held on the ninth of this month, an agreement was reached on a humanitarian truce, which came into effect the following day, but a dead letter remained. A week later, a second ceasefire failed.
Efforts and efforts
Russia, the powerful regional power, has intensified its calls for a ceasefire since the start of the fighting on September 27 in Nagorno-Karabakh, the majority Armenian, which separated from Azerbaijan with the collapse of the Soviet Union; This caused a war that left 30 thousand dead.
Sergey Lavrov described the continuation of the fighting as “unacceptable” and last Monday indicated that Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are working to implement a mechanism to monitor the ceasefire “soon”.
In parallel political events, the office of Armenian President Armen Sarkissian said he went to Brussels to discuss the conflict in the Karabakh region with NATO and European Union officials.
He added that Sarkissian will meet during the visit with the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, the foreign policy official of the European Union, Josep Borrell, and the president of the European Council. Charles Michel.
He added that Armenia hopes that the leaders of NATO and the European Union “will do everything possible” to stop the fighting and “revive” the ceasefire agreement.
Field developments
On the ground, the Al-Jazeera correspondent said that clashes between the Azerbaijani and Armenian parties in the Karabakh region continue on the front lines in Agdara, Fizuli, Gabriel and Qubadli.
A statement from the Azerbaijani army said that several of its sites were attacked by Armenian forces. The statement added that their operations forced Armenian forces to withdraw on the Gabriel and Qubadli axes.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry also indicated that it destroyed a battalion of Armenian forces and killed most of its members south of Karabakh, confirming that its forces seized military equipment and armored vehicles.
For his part, the Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the city of Martoni (east of Karabakh province), adjacent to the battle front in Fizuli; It witnessed heavy bombardment and damage to infrastructure.
Bombing and toll
On the other hand, local authorities in the Karabakh region – which is not internationally recognized – said that Azerbaijani forces resumed bombing residential communities early Wednesday morning after a relatively quiet night.
He added that in the bombing of Martakert and the surrounding towns, weapons were used whose use is prohibited against the civilian population.
A spokeswoman for the Armenian Defense Ministry explained that the air defense units of the Karabakh army attacked an Azerbaijani aircraft heading south this morning, which was denied by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, considering it a new fabrication of what it described as the Armenian military propaganda machine.
According to partial statistics, recent battles have resulted in more than 800 deaths, including about 100 civilians. Each of the two camps confirmed that they had killed thousands in the ranks of the other camp.
Azerbaijan claims that it regained control of the last lands during recent battles, without yet having been able to achieve a decisive military victory.
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