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American mediation did not help: another ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh collapsed
Minutes after it took effect, Armenia and Azerbaijan blamed each other for violations of the truce, the third in a row since the war began in the separatist enclave a month ago.
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Monday, 26 October 2020, 11:57
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Another ceasefire attempt in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict collapsed today (Monday) immediately after it began, as Armenia and Azerbaijan exchanged accusations of violating the initiative they agreed on yesterday through US-mediated, which hosted the two foreign ministers.
The two previous truces, mediated by Russia and France, also collapsed at the outset.
Less than an hour since the ceasefire began at 8 a.m., the Foreign Ministry in Azerbaijan said Armenia had shelled the municipality of Tartar and other villages in a "blatant violation" of the understandings.
Armenia's Defense Ministry said the Azeri forces had "blatantly" violated the ceasefire with artillery shelling at various positions along the front line in the mountainous enclave.
More than a thousand people have been killed since the start of the war on September 27, the worst since Armenian separatists in the enclave of Azerbaijan declared independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In that war, which ended in a ceasefire in 1994, about 30,000 people were killed.
No country in the world, including Armenia, recognizes the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, but considers it part of the territory of Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in a speech to the nation today that his country wants to resolve the conflict through political and military means.
He reiterated his demand for the withdrawal of Armenian separatists to stop the fighting, which threatens to supply energy to world markets.
Azerbaijan claims to have made significant gains on the ground since the beginning of the fighting, especially in the buffer zones outside Krabach that are under Armenian separatist control.
Armenia admitted that it had suffered casualties and called on volunteers to join the front.
The French news agency reported that the region's capital, Stephancart, had been quieter in recent days after heavy shelling during the fighting.
Agency reporters said that ten minutes before the ceasefire began, an explosion was heard and smoke billowed from a nearby hill.
The sounds of fighting from the front faded this morning compared to previous days, although shelling noises could still be heard in the distance.
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Armenian separatists have reported about a thousand dead from their ranks since the beginning of the fighting, alongside dozens of civilians killed in shelling and bombing.
Azerbaijan, which is supported by Turkey and equipped with Israeli weapons, reported dozens of civilians killed, but did not release the number of its military casualties, which are estimated to be high.
Baku and Ankara deny that Syrian fighters are involved in the fighting, as Armenia, France, Russia and other countries claim.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who maintains close ties with the two former Soviet republics, said last weekend that nearly 5,000 people had been killed in the fighting.
At this point Moscow has not yet taken a side in the conflict, despite the fact that it has a military alliance with Armenia and a base in the country.
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Azerbaijan wants Turkey to be part of the negotiations, which to this day have been spearheaded by Russia, France and the United States, which head the "Minsk Group".
The talks have so far yielded no settlement to the conflict, and Baku is demanding the withdrawal of Armenian separatists from what it defines as occupied territory.
The foreign ministers of the Minsk member states are due to meet in Geneva on Thursday in an attempt to reach an agreement.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday after the announcement of a new ceasefire that the talks were "intense".
Another country concerned by the conflict is Iran, which borders the two countries and maintains good relations with them.
In recent days, Iranian forces have been deployed at the border.
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