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Armenia responded positively on Friday to a call by France, Russia and the United States for a cease-fire between its forces and the Azerbaijani forces, which continue to clash over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in an ongoing conflict that is threatening to escalate into all-out war.
Armenia and Azerbaijan vowed to keep fighting and rejected international calls for negotiations Wednesday as clashes over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region raged for a fourth day.
NATO allies France and Turkey traded angry recriminations on Wednesday as international tensions mounted over the fiercest clashes between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces since the mid-1990s.
Military clashes between Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijan continued Thursday, further raising tensions between Turkey and Russia, which back opposing sides in the conflict. The fighting erupted after a day of calm that had raised hopes of an end to the confrontation.
Thousands have demonstrated in Azerbaijan calling for war after recent deadly clashes with neighbouring Armenia. Protesters marched through the capital Baku demanding the government fully deploy the army, with some even entering the national parliament. Security forces responded with water cannon...
The former prime minister of the unrecognized region of Nagorno-Karabakh has won a runoff presidential election in the disputed region, an expected result after his rival asked his supporters not to vote in the second round.
The authorities of the internationally unrecognised breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh are holding presidential and parliamentary elections amid international criticism and despite the coronavirus pandemic. … In a sternly worded statement, the European Union reiterated on Tuesday (31 March) that it does not recognise the so-called elections and warned that the move could hamper the progress of international negotiations on resolving the conflict.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met for a public discussion on February 15 at the Munich Security Conference.
The Foreign Ministries of the two countries said in separate statements on September 24 that Zohrab Mnatsakanian and Elmar Mamadyarov were joined during the talks on September 23 by the co-chairmen of the OSCE's so-called Minsk Group, Igor Popov of Russia, Stephane Visconti of France, Andrew Shoffer of the United States, and Andrzej Kasprzyk, the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has blamed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for the lack of "concrete results" in negotiations aimed at resolving the decades-long dispute between their countries over Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Pashinian made the remarks in an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Armenian Service on July 17.