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Armenia breaks ceasefire with Azerbaijan 112 times

20 April 2017 08:20 (UTC +04:00)

Over the past 24 hours, Armenian armed forces have 112 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told APA on Apr. 20.

The Azerbaijani army positions in Jafarli, Bala Jafarli, Kamarli, Qaymaqli villages of Gazakh district came under fire from the Armenian army positions located on nameless heights of Armenia’s Ijevan district and in Berdavan, Barekamavan, Dovekh villages of Armenia’s Noyemberyan district.

Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani positions located on nameless heights and in Aghbulag, Munjuqlu, Aghdam, Alibayli villages of Tovuz district were shelled from the Armenian positions located on nameless heights and in Chinari, Ayqedzor, Mosesgekh villages of Armenia’s Berd district.

The Azerbaijani army positions were also fired at from the Armenian positions located near the Armenian-occupied Goyarkh, Yarimja villages of Tartar district, Yusifjanli, Marzili, Qaraqashli, Bash Gervend villages of Aghdam district, Kuropatkino village of Khojavand district, Gorgan, Horadiz, Garakhanbayli, Ashagi Seyidahmadli and Ashagi Veysalli villages of Fuzuli district, as well as from nameless heights of Goygol, Goranboy, Tartar, Khojavand and Fuzuli districts of Azerbaijan.

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 December 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.