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Armenia violates ceasefire with Azerbaijan 40 times

12 December 2016 07:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA. Over the last 24 hours, Armenian armed forces have 40 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Dec.12.

Armenian military was using 60mm and 82mm mortars and heavy machine guns to shell Azerbaijani positions.

Azerbaijani army positions located in Kokhanebi villages of Azerbaijan's Tovuz district came under fire from Armenian positions located in Chinari cillage of Armenia's Berd district.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijani army positions located on nameless heights of Gadabay district were shelled from Armenian positions located on nameless uplands of Krasnoselsk district.

Azerbaijani army positions also underwent fire from Armenian positions located near the Armenia-occupied Chilaburt village of Teter district, Shuraabad, Sarijali villages of Aghdam district, Kuropatkino village of Khojavand district, Ashagi Seyidahmedli village of Fuzuli district, as well as on nameless heights of Goranboy, Terter, Khojavand and Jabrayil 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.