Armenia keeps high tension on contact line
Armenian armed forces have broken the ceasefire with Azerbaijan 80 times in various parts of the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian armies in the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on September 10.
Armenian military used mortars and large-caliber machine guns to shell Azerbaijani troops’ positions.
Armenian armed forces located in the villages of Doveh, Voskevan of Armenia’s Noyemberyan district opened fire at the positions of Azerbaijani armed forces located in the villages of Kemerli, Gushchu Ayrim of Gazakh district.
Azerbaijani positions located in the village of Kokhanebi of Tovuz district took fire from the positions located in the village of Chinari of Armenia’s Berd district.
Moreover, Azerbaijani positions located on the nameless heights of Gadabay district underwent fire from the positions located on the nameless heights of Armenia’s Krasnoselskiy district.
Another ceasefire violation came from the positions located near the villages of Talish, Tapgaragoyunlu, Gulustan of Goranboy district, Goyarkh, Yarimja of Terter, Sarijali, Kengerli, Shikhlar, Merzili, Javahirli of Aghdam, Kuropatkino of Khojavend, Horadiz, Ashagi Abdurrahmanli, Ashagi Seyidahmadli, Gorgan of Fizuli and Mehdili of Jabrayil district.
Azerbaijani positions also took fire from the positions located on the nameless heights of Goranboy, Khojavend and Fizuli districts.
Azerbaijani armed forces carried out 140 strikes on enemy positions.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
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