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Armenian troops keep tension high on contact line

21 October 2014 10:12 (UTC+04:00)
Armenian troops keep tension high on contact line

Armenian armed forces have broken ceasefire with Azerbaijan 14 times in numerous positions in the last 24 hours, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry reported on October 21.

Azerbaijani positions were fired from the positions located near the villages of Kuropatkino of the Khojavend district, Mehdili of the Jabrayil district, as well as the nameless heights of the Fizuli and Khojavend districts.

The enemy was silenced with return fire.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor.

Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.

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