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Armenia continues breaking ceasefire with Azerbaijan

18 July 2018 08:14 (UTC +04:00)

Over the past 24 hours, Armenia’s armed forces have 98 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told APA on July 18.

Armenia’s armed forces were using heavy machine guns.

Armenia’s armed units stationed on nameless heights in Noyemberyan district, in Paravakar village of Ijevan district, as well as in Mosesgekh, Chinari villages and on nameless heights in Berd district, shelled the Azerbaijani army’s positions located in Kohnagishlag village of Aghstafa district, Gaymagli, Gushchu Ayrim, Ashaghi Eskipara villages of Gazakh district, as well as in Aghdam, Esrik Jirdakhan, Aghbulag, Munjuglu villages of Tovuz district.

Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani army’s positions located on nameless heights in Gadabay district came under fire from the Armenian army’s positions located on nameless heights in Krasnoselsk district.

Positions of the Azerbaijani army were also shelled from the positions located near the Armenian-occupied Nemirli, Jevahirli, Shirvanli, Sarijali, Merzili villages of Aghdam district, Ashaghi Veysalli, Garakhanbeyli, Horadiz villages of Fuzuli district, Mehdili village of Jabrayil district, as well as on nameless heights in Goranboy, Tartar districts.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.

A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.

The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.

Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the CSCE (OSCE after the Budapest summit held in Dec.1994) Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.

Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, the US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.

Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.