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The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported that the Armenian armed forces opened fire at positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces located in Gizilhajili village of Gazakh region from the positions located in the village of Berkaber of Armenia's Ijevan region on November 6-7.

Also, Azerbaijani Armed Forces were fired from the positions located near the villages of Kuropatkino of Khojavend, Tapgaragoyunlu of Goranboy, Ashagi Abdulrahmanli of Fizuli regions.

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

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

As a result of the military aggression, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

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