As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20% of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
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Hayk Minasyan, an Artsakh Defense Army soldier, was killed sometime last night by intensive Azerbaijani shelling, this according to the Artsakh Ministry of Defense.
It’s “unreasonable” for Armenia to return to peace talks with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory without security guarantees because “the situation is entirely different now”, he said.
A section of the Karabakh frontline adjacent to Iran was one of the two epicenters of heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. Worldwide mediators have failed to negotiate a lasting peace since then in a conflict that threatens to destabilize a region flanked by Russia, Turkey and Iran, while also potentially disrupting a new energy corridor between central Asia and Europe.
“On the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Karabakh forces, the enemy violated a ceasefire 80 times using all types of artillery and armored vehicles”, the ministry said.
Both sides accused each other Sunday of new truce violations. The claims came from defense authorities of Armenia and of Azerbaijan.
Armenians also opened fire upon the Azerbaijani army positions from nameless heights in the Goygol, Goranboy, Khojavand, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts.
“The U.S.co-chair of the Minsk Group has visited the region”.
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The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in 1988, when the autonomous region sought to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
