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Armenian armed forces 117 times violated the ceasefire on various parts of the contact line between the troops of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the past 24 hours, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported on March 17.

Azerbaijani positions located in the nameless heights, Qizilhajili village of the Qazakh district, Kohneqishlaq village of the Agstafa district were shot by Armenians stationed in the nameless heights, the villages of Paravakar, Berkaber of Armenia’s Ijevan district.

Armenian military stationed in the villages of Chinari, Mosesgeh of Armenia’s Berd district opened fire at the Azerbaijani army positions in the villages of Kokhanebi, Alibayli, Aghdam of the Tovuz district.

Azerbaijani army positions, located on nameless heights in Azerbaijan’s Gadabay district, were fired at by Armenians stationed on nameless heights in Armenia’s Krasnoselsk district.

Armenian army also opened fire from positions near Gulustan village of the Goranboy district, Chayli, Yarimja, Chilaburt, Goyarkh villages of the Tartar district, Shikhlar, Bash Qarvand, Novruzlu, Javahirli, Sarijali, Shuraabad, Kangarli, Nemirli, Yusifjanli villages of the Aghdam district, Kuropatkino village of the Khojavand district, Horadiz, Gorgan, Ashagi Seyidahmadli villages of the Fizuli district and Mehdili village of the Jabrayil district.

Armenians also opened fire upon the Azerbaijani army positions from the nameless heights in the Goygol, Goranboy, Khojavand, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts.

Azerbaijani Armed Forces inflicted 120 strikes upon Armenia’s positions.

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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