Azerbaijan’s army claimed to have wrested back control of several strategic locations inside Armenian-controlled territory, effectively changing the frontline for the first time since an inconclusive truce ended a three-year war in 1994.
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Rohani made the offer in separate telephone conversations on April 6 with his Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sarkisian. “The Azerbaijani media reported that in response to Armenia’s shooting, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces managed to eliminate and injure 170 Armenian separatists and destroy the Armenian headquarters in Nagorno-Karabakh”, the newspaper reports.
“Russia says that Turkey is taking sides”. The Azerbaijani and Armenian Defense Ministries accused each other of provoking the escalation.
When oil prices were high, Azerbaijan used its petrodollars to upgrade its military, with most of its new weapons, including heavy artillery, rocket launchers and tanks, provided by Russian Federation.
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) – A cease-fire has largely held Wednesday around Nagorno-Karabakh despite claims of sporadic violations after an outburst of fighting that has raised fears of an all-out war. The intractable conflict for Nagorno-Karabakh has not come any closer to a peaceful resolution.
Azerbaijan’s defense ministry reported isolated firing from the Armenian side but said its forces were “strictly abiding by the ceasefire agreement” hammered out on Tuesday, April 5, by the Azerbaijani and Armenian army chiefs during a meeting in Moscow.
Azerbaijan has launched a withering attack on Kim Kardashian after she urged people to “pray for Armenia” amid the outbreak of violence between the two countries. Nakhchivan is surrounded by Armenia, Iran and Turkey.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Yerevan today and will be in Baku tomorrow.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry has said 31 of its soldiers have been killed since Saturday; Karabakh has acknowledged the loss of 30 and said 101 others have been wounded.
Anger and frustration are building in Azerbaijan that years of talks have failed to bring Nagorno-Karabakh under its control.
Countries and organizations across the world, including the OSCE Minsk Group, the UN, Russia – which has deep economic and political ties with both Baku and Yerevan – and a number of European states, have been working to persuade both parties to stop hostilities immediately and announce a ceasefire.
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Artsrun Hovhannisyan, a spokesman for Armenia’s Defense Ministry, told Ria Novosti, a Russian state-run news agency, that in this video, the Harop has apparently targeted a bus full of Armenian “volunteers”, killing seven.
