Azerbaijan on Monday said Armenian forces continued attacks on its civil settlements and military units, despite a fresh humanitarian cease-fire in Karabakh.<\/p>\n
The villages of Aghdam region, as well as the city of Tartar and its surrounding villages are being subjected to heavy shelling, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“…the Armenian armed forces are firing at our human settlements, and the positions of units of the Azerbaijan Army along the entire front, as well as on the Armenia-Azerbaijan state border using various types of small arms, mortars, and howitzers,” the statement read.<\/p>\n
The ministry added that Armenian forces also opened fired on Tovuz, Gadabay, and Dashkesan regions of Azerbaijan from the Berd, Chambarak, and Vardenis regions of Armenia.<\/p>\n
The positions of Azerbaijani units in Tartar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Lachin, and Gubadli also came under attack, it said.<\/p>\n
The ministry, meanwhile, claimed that Azerbaijani army units are fully complying with the armistice.<\/p>\n
Relations between the two former Soviet republics have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Upper Karabakh, or Nagorno-Karabakh, an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n
Recent clashes erupted on Sept. 27, and since then Armenia has repeatedly attacked Azerbaijani civilians and forces.<\/p>\n
Multiple UN resolutions, and many international organizations demand the withdrawal of the occupying forces.<\/p>\n
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group \u2013 co-chaired by France, Russia, and the US \u2013 was formed in 1992 to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, but to no avail. A cease-fire, however, was agreed to in 1994.<\/p>\n
The US brokered a new temporary humanitarian truce between Baku and Yerevan, which came into effect at 08:00 a.m. local time (0400GMT) Monday.<\/p>\n
Earlier cease-fires for the exchange of prisoners and bodies, reached on Oct. 10 and Oct. 17 respectively, were also violated by Armenia.<\/p>\n
At least 65 Azerbaijani civilians have died, and 297 injured in Armenian attacks so far, according to Azerbaijan’s Chief Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
While world powers have called for a lasting cease-fire, Turkey has supported Baku’s right to self-defense, and demanded the withdrawal of Armenia’s occupying forces.<\/p>\n
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