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The ceasefire regime was again violated on contact line between the Azerbaijani and Armenian armies, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.

Armenian Armed Forces opened fire at positions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces situated in Gizilhajili and Kemerli villages of the Gazakh region, from the positions located near the village of Berkaber and Azamut of the Armenian Ijevan region on Sept.16-17.

The Azerbaijani positions were fired from the positions near the occupied villages of Goradiz Ashagi Abdulrahmanli of the Fizuli region, Shikhlar and Namirli of the Agdam region, as well as from the positions in the nameless heights in Goygol and Dashkasan regions.

The Armenians were silenced with a retail fire, the Defense Ministry said.

The precarious cease-fire between Azerbaijan and Armenia was reached after a lengthy war that displaced over a million Azerbaijanis and has been in place between the two South Caucasus countries since 1994. Since the hostilities, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenia's withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.