Armenia violates ceasefire with Azerbaijan 102 times within 24 hours

  21 October 2015    Read: 1470
Armenia violates ceasefire with Azerbaijan 102 times within 24 hours
Armenian armed forces have broken the ceasefire with Azerbaijan 102 times in various parts of the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian armies in the last 24 hours, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.
Armenian armed forces located in the Paravakar village and in nameless heights of Armenia’s Ijevan district opened fire at the positions of Azerbaijani armed forces located in the nameless heights of Gazakh district.Armenian armed forces stationed in the Kohnagishlag village of Aghstafa district, Mosegekh and Chinari of Berd opened fire at the Azerbaijani positions in Aghdam district of Tovuz district.

Along with that, Armenian troops on nameless heights in the Krosnolensk district of Armenia fired on nameless positions in the Gadabay village of Azerbaijan.

Armenian armed forces located near the villages of Tapgaragoyunlu, Gulustan, Tartar of Goranboy district, Goyarkh, Yarimca, Chayli of Terter, Sarijalili, Yusifjanli, Novruzlu, Garagashli, Merzili of Aghdam district, Kuropatkino of Khojavend, Horadiz, Gorgan, Garakhanbayli, of Fizuli district, Mehdili village of Jabrail district opened fire at the positions of Azerbaijani armed forces.

Another ceasefire violation came from the positions located on the nameless heights of Goygol, Goranboy, Khojavend and Fizuli districts.

Azerbaijani armed forces carried out 105 strikes on enemy positions.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council`s four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.

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