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The situation on the contact line between Azerbaijan and Armenia has remained tense as the Armenian Armed Forces shattered ceasefire a total of 120 times throughout the day, Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry reported on April 13.

Armenian military used 60mm mortar launcher and large caliber machine guns to shell Azerbaijani positions.

Armenian armed units located in the villages of Paravakar, Berkaber of Armenia's Ijevan district fired at the positions of Azerbaijani armed forces located in the Kohnegishlag village of the Aghstafa district, and on nameless heights and in the Gizilhajili village of the Gazakh district.

Armenian army opened fire from positions near the villages of Yarimja, Goyarkh of the Tartar district, Shikhlar, Bash Gervend, Javahirli, Sarijali, Kangarli, Novruzlu, the Aghdam district, Kuropatkino of the Khojavend district, Garakhanbeyli, Horadiz, Gorgan, Ashagi Seyidahmadli of the Fuzuli district, Mehdili of the Jabrayil district, as well as on nameless heights in the districts of Goygol, Goranboy, Khojavend, Fuzuli and Jabrayil.

In view of the operational situation, Azerbaijani armed forces inflicted 126 strikes on Armenian 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.

Over the entire period of its existence, the OSCE Minsk Group, which acted as the only mediator in resolution of the conflict, failed to move forward in resolving the long lasting conflict.

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