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By Nazrin Gadimova

Baku has once again proved the world its commitment to peace after agreeing to cease operations on the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, which escalated following Yerevan’s provocation.

As a result of systematic, deliberate and targeted attacks launched by Armenians on civilian population from April 2 through April 5 six civilians, including two children below 16 years, were killed and 26 civilians were seriously wounded.

The cease-fire has been pushed by Moscow with a view to restart talks between the warring parties and find end to the conflict.

Although the international community expressed hopes the ceasefire will be observed by all sides, the aggressor Armenia continued to ignore peace calls.

The guns went silent on April 5, but shortly after Armenian militaries began to breach the ceasefire and again shell the Azerbaijani positions in Nakhchivan.

Baku instead obeyed the truce, pointing out that the main risk to this truce is that the Armenian side does not want peace, but seeks to maintain the status quo.

When the situation in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region has exploded unexpectedly following Armenia’s provocation, a number of world’s leaders and organizations have expressed their concern over the embarrassing situation.

Russia, the U.S., Iran, Georgia, Germany, Canada, Italy and many others have urged the parties to the conflict to strictly observe ceasefire. They hoped that if this temporary truce can be converted into a permanent ceasefire, then the sides could launch talks to end this decades-long conflict.

Actually, the Nagorno-Karabakh issue needs a comprehensive settlement that cannot be reached if Armenia continues to violate a fragile truce. The world community should develop such an approach, which will restrain Armenia from committing crime against Azerbaijan and its civilian population.

The Azerbaijani side showed that it is ready for peace and sits at the table of negations, but it will not tolerate the endless occupation of its historical lands.

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Nazrin Gadimova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @NazrinGadimova

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