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Fifteen Council members “expressed their support for the Secretary-General’s call to the parties to end the fighting immediately, ease tensions and immediately return to meaningful negotiations,” the statement was unanimously adopted during the urgently convened talks on Nagorno- Karabakh.
Council members “strongly condemn the use of force and deplore the loss of life and the impact on the civilian population” in the ethnic Armenian enclave that separated from Azerbaijan in the 1990s.
In a short statement, the Council expressed concern about “reports of large-scale military action along the Line of Contact” in the conflict zone.
The Council reaffirmed its “full support” for the central role of the United States, Russia and France, at the head of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in mediating peace.
The UN Security Council called on all parties to work closely with these states “in the urgent resumption of dialogue without preconditions.”
Diplomats said the text, approved at the end of a meeting that lasted about an hour, was proposed by three countries leading the OSCE’s Minsk Group.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been arguing about Nagorno-Karabakh for decades. Baku and Yerevan have blamed each other for provoking fierce clashes that began on Sunday and which, according to confirmed figures, have already left about 100 people behind.
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