DM Monitoring
BAKU: The information of the Armenian side that the Azerbaijani army is again shelling the Nagorno-Karabakh’s cities of Khojavend and Shusha is absolutely false.
“Azerbaijan once again declares that its army doesn’t target settlements and civilian infrastructure,” said the ministry.
Armenian Armed Forces launched a large-scale military attack on positions of the Azerbaijani army on the front line, using large-caliber weapons, mortars, and artillery on Sept. 27.
Azerbaijan responded with a counter-offensive along the entire front. As a result of retaliation, Azerbaijani troops liberated a number of territories previously occupied by Armenia, as well as take important, strategic heights under control.
The fighting continued into October 2020, in the early days of which Armenia has launched missile attacks on Azerbaijani cities of Ganja, Mingachevir, Khizi as well as Absheron district.
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, the Armenian Armed Forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on the withdrawal of its armed forces from Nagorno Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
Meanwhile, Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan made a statement at the 130th session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on November 4, 2020, Trend reports citing Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
While joining the Council of Europe, Bayramov said, Azerbaijan and Armenia undertook a joint commitment on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which resulted in illegal occupation of about 20 percent of the internationally recognized territories of Azerbaijan and forced displacement of around one million Azerbaijani citizens.
“Over the last 28 years, the mediation efforts under the OSCE Minsk Group did not yield any tangible results, due to the policy of governments in Armenia.
I should remind that in its 2015 judgment in the case «Chiragov and others against Armenia», the European Court of Human Rights recognized the effective control of Armenia over the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Even after this judgment, Armenia continued to reject its responsibility, without facing any consequences,” he said.
