Armenia breaks ceasefire with Azerbaijan 81 times

Armenia breaks ceasefire with Azerbaijan 81 times
# 10 July 2018 08:17 (UTC +04:00)

Over the past 24 hours, Armenia’s armed forces have 81 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told APA on July 10.

Armenia’s armed forces were using heavy machine guns.

Armenia’s armed units stationed in Shavarshavan, Voskevan villages of Noyemberyan district, on nameless heights in Ijevan district as well as in Chinari villages of Berd district shelled the Azerbaijani army’s positions located in Gushchu Ayrim, Gizilhajili villages and on nameless heights in Gazakh district as well as in Kokhanabi villages of Tovuz district.

Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani army’s positions located in Goyali village of 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 Goyarkh, Yarimja villages of Tartar district, Namirli, Taghibeyli, Bash Garvand, Javahirli, Abdinli, Garagashli, Marzili villages of Aghdam district, Kuropatkino village of Khojavend district, Ashaghi Veysalli, Gobu Dilagharda, Garvand, Gorgan, Kurdlar villages of Fuzuli district, Nuzgar, Mehdili villages of Jabrayil district as well as from the positions located on nameless heights in Goygol, Goranboy, Tartar, Aghdam and Khojavend 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.

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