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Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia and Azerbaijan clashes resume as Iran guarantees peace plan

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Armenia and Azerbaijan accused one another of launching missile assaults on their main cities as Iran mentioned it was engaged on a peace plan to finish the preventing.

The battle over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan however has been below the management of ethnic Armenian forces since 1994, reignited on 27 September amid claims Turkey was sending militants to the area.

Dzens of individuals have already been killed, with Nagorno-Karabakh officers claiming that round 220 servicemen and 21 civilians have died within the clashes. Azerbaijani authorities haven’t confirmed any army casualties however reported the deaths of 25 civilians.

On Monday morning Armenian army officers reported missile strikes within the territorial capital of Stepanakert, which got here below intense assaults all weekend. Residents instructed the Russian state RIA Novosti information company that elements of the town had been struggling shortages of electrical energy and gasoline after the strikes.

In flip the Azerbaijani Protection Ministry accused Armenian forces of shelling the cities of Tartar, Barda and Beylagan, and firing on Ganja, the nation’s second-largest metropolis.

Hikmet Hajiyev, aide to Azeirbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, tweeted that Armenian forces attacked “densely populated civilian areas” in Ganja, Barda, Beylagan and different cities “with missiles and rockets.”

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Armenia’s International Ministry dismissed allegations of assaults being launched from Armenia’s territory as a “disinformation marketing campaign” by Azerbaijan. Nagorno-Karabakh officers did not touch upon the accusations, however warned that the territory’s forces would goal army amenities in Azerbaijani cities in response to strikes on Stepanakert.

The International Ministry of Iran, which shares a 470 mile-long border with Azerbaijan and a brief border with Armenia, mentioned it’s engaged on a peace deal.

Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh mentioned: “Iran has ready a plan with a particular framework containing particulars after consultations with either side of the dispute, Azerbaijan and Armenia, in addition to regional states and neighbors, and can pursue this plan.”

Mr Khatibzadeh additionally warned either side in opposition to increasing the hostilities into Iranian territory, following stories that stray mortar shells had injured a toddler and broken some buildings in rural areas in northern Iran.

“Any aggression in opposition to the borders of the Islamic Republic, even inadvertently, is a really critical crimson line for the Islamic Republic that shouldn’t be crossed,” he mentioned.

Karabakh’s Defence Military fires an artillery piece in the direction of Azeri positions on four October(RazmInfo/Armenian Defence Minist)

Nagorno-Karabakh was a delegated autonomous area inside Azerbaijan through the Soviet period. It claimed independence from Azerbaijan in 1991, about three months earlier than the Soviet Union’s collapse. A full-scale warfare that broke out in 1992 killed an estimated 30,000 folks.

By the point the warfare resulted in 1994, Armenian forces not solely held Nagorno-Karabakh itself but in addition substantial areas exterior the territory borders, just like the Jabrayil area.

Azerbaijan’s president has repeatedly mentioned that the preventing will finish solely with Armenia’s withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenian officers allege Turkey is concerned within the battle on the facet of Azerbaijan and is sending fighters from Syria to the area. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian mentioned “a cease-fire will be established provided that Turkey is faraway from the South Caucasus.”

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Turkey, a NATO member, has denied sending arms or overseas fighters, whereas publicly siding with Azerbaijan.

NATO Secretary-Common Jens Stoltenberg  met with the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday night time to debate the “army de-confliction mechanism” developed by the organisation for the Japanese Mediterranean.

He instructed reporters that NATO was “deeply involved by the escalation of hostilities,” and urged Turkey to “use its appreciable affect to calm tensions.”

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