Moscow-Sana
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced today that his country does not oppose the idea of deploying observers and peace-keeping forces in the Karabakh region, which is disputed with Armenia in principle, but it will present conditions for their entry.
Russia Today quoted Aliyev as saying in an interview with the Japanese newspaper Nikai that “the Minsk group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will make proposals regarding the composition of the observer mission and the peacekeeping forces, the number of its members and the dates for their deployment,” announcing that he does not rule out the possibility of holding a summit meeting between him and the Prime Minister of Armenia. Nikole Pashinyan in the Russian capital, Moscow, to discuss the Karabakh conflict.
Hopes to stop the bloodshed that have continued for nearly a month in the Nagorno Karabakh region have diminished today, with renewed clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces.
The Ministry of Defense in Azerbaijan stated that fighting broke out in several places today, including lands close to the demarcation line that separates the two sides, while the Ministry of Defense in Armenia stated that fighting broke out in several areas, while the town of Martoni and nearby villages within the Karabakh region were bombed.
On September 27, armed clashes erupted on the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the Nagorno Karabakh region and adjacent areas, in the most dangerous escalation between the two sides in nearly three decades, amid mutual accusations of starting the fighting.