BBC International Media Corporation has shown a video release about the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The footage features an Azerbaijani family, living in the conflict zone. “We can’t live on the second floor, it is too dangerous,” said the head of family. “So, all our family is cramped into one room downstairs. Residents complain of the bullets hitting their homes.”

“Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a war over Nagorno-Karabakh in 1990s,” BBC said. “30,000 people were killed, Azerbaijan lost the territory and seven adjacent regions, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. Since the ceasefire agreement in 1994 there hasn’t been much progress in resolving this conflict. In the outside world, it is often referred to as “a frozen conflict”, but for the thousands of people who live close to the frontline it never froze and coming under fire is a daily reality.”

The video release said that military causalities have escalated last year. “Tensions peaked when Azerbaijani forces shot down a helicopter in November, which Armenia says was unarmed,” BBC said.

“Attack helicopters belonging to the air forces of Armenia conducted assault flights and made attack elements through the defense positions of the Azerbaijan armed forces and therefore obvious incident happened,” Hikmet Hajiyev, acting head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan said. “For the Armenian side, every time using provocative activities and provocative actions, the major intention is to damage and hurt the negotiation process.”

In the absence of progress at the negotiation table, Azerbaijan has been spending billions of dollars boosting its military capability, according to BBC.

The youngest schoolchildren can recite the names of the territories now occupied by Armenia, according to the footage. They believe that through war or peace, their land will be returned, even if it takes another generation to achieve it.

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 four UN Security Council resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.

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