The European Union urges the “immediate end” of the fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia
At least two Armenian soldiers and one Azerbaijani soldier have been killed in new clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region this Wednesday. The authorities of the self-declared republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, officially known as Artsaj, have said that two soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded with mortars and grenade launchers “at a fixed location of one of the military units”.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense said on its official Twitter profile that the attack took place as a result of a drone “in the northwestern part of the contact line between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan”. Following the armed clashes between the parties, the president of the self-declared republic, Araik Arutiunián, has signed a decree announcing a partial military mobilization to begin this Wednesday, according to the Armenpress news agency.
The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, for its part, said in a statement that members of Armenian armed groups “fired intensely at the positions of the army units, located in the direction of the Lachin region”, resulting in the death of a soldier from gunfire. wound.
Currently, the Lachin Corridor connects Armenia to the Nagorno-Karabakh region and is controlled by the Russian army deployed as peacekeepers under the ceasefire signed on November 9 by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev. The agreement stipulated that the corridor would consist of a strip of territory five kilometers wide and that the Armenian armed forces would withdraw from the area to hand over control to the Russian army.
The European Union on Wednesday called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Caucasus. “A de-escalation is essential, with full respect for the ceasefire and a return to the negotiating table to find a negotiated solution,” said the spokesman for the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, in a statement. declaration.
Five days ago, the Armenian Ministry of Defense denounced an attack by the Azerbaijani armed forces on its military positions in the eastern part of the common border, without any possible casualties being recorded.
Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed in 2020 to take control of Nagorno Karabakh, a majority Armenian area that has been at the center of conflict since it decided in 1988 to secede from the Soviet-integrated region of Azerbaijan. Hostilities between the two nations lasted for six weeks and left thousands dead. They eventually stopped when the two countries reached a Russia-brokered ceasefire, allowing Russian peacekeepers to settle in Nagorno-Karabakh for a period of five years.
Source: La Verdad
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