Armenia will continue its joint work with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to settle Karabakh conflict through negotiations when necessary conditions are created, Edward Nalbandian, Armenian foreign minister said Friday as met with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault in Paris. 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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Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a festering feud over the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh after Armenian separatists seized the territory from Baku in a bloody conflict in the early 1990s.
It said Armenia’s public broadcaster would face yet-to-be-determined sanctions and that “any further breach of the rules of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest could lead to disqualification from this year’s event or any successive editions”.
Despite a 1994 peace deal, border skirmishes are a frequent occurrence. “We have repeatedly pointed out that without an adequate and targeted worldwide response, consequences of Azerbaijan’s violence will become irreparable”, the statement stressed.
The Azerbaijani side used artillery weapons of different calibers, mortars and grenade launchers as it violated the agreement on ceasefire starting from 19:30, May 11. “The Azerbaijani side wants new negotiations and to use its military force as leverage”, de Waal wrote.
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“We are grateful to Russian Federation for its assistance in resolving the Armenian-Azeri, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”. On the same day, the defense ministries of the two countries announced that the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh would start at 12am local time.
