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Armenia: Azerbaijan Is Paving Way to Expand Geography of War


Mon 05 Oct 2020 | 10:33 AM
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The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, on Monday, that the reports circulated during the past few hours about strikes from Armenia on residential and civilian areas in Azerbaijan, are baseless.

The ministry added, in a statement that, the reports received in the past few hours about bombing civilian areas in Azerbaijan are misleading information.

The statement noted that Armenia believes that Azerbaijan is paving the way, by publishing such information, to expand the geography of war.

The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the aim of the disinformation campaign is to conceal the massive shelling launched by Azerbaijan on large civilian areas in Nagorno-Karabakh, leaving many civilian casualties and causing severe damage to the civilian infrastructure.

The two rivals in the Caucasus have been locked in a bitter conflict over the Karabakh region since the collapse of the Soviet Union when the ethnic-Armenian province split from Azerbaijan in 1991.

In a joint call, Russian President Vladimir Putin, US Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron urged the parties to return to negotiations aimed at settling this long-standing conflict.

“We are ready to deal with the countries that co-chair the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for a ceasefire based on the 1994-1995 agreements,” the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement the day after this invitation.

About 200 people were confirmed killed since last week, including more than 30 civilians.