Armenia-Azerbaijan: the UN Security Council calls for an immediate stop to the clashes

The UN Security Council expressed its support for the appeal of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces to “stop the fighting immediately, reduce tensions and return to meaningful negotiations without delay” after three days of bloody clashes in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The 15 members of the UN body signed the document unanimously during an emergency meeting on the conflict. The Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian he considered the idea of ​​negotiations with Azerbaijan through Russian mediation premature. “It is not appropriate to talk about an Armenia-Azerbaijan-Russia summit while clashes are ongoing,” Pachinian told Russian media, according to the agency. Interfax. “For negotiations – he said – we need an adequate atmosphere”.

In these days, the Armenian forces would have tried to “resume their lost positions” with military actions in the directions of Fizuli-Jabrailsky and Agder-Tertersky but would have been repulsed by the Azerbaijani troops, who now report that they are carrying out an offensive to conquer the town of Fizuli.

“Azerbaijan is preparing for a direct attack on Armenia,” said the Armenian Foreign Ministry, quoted by the Russian agency Interfax. The ministry then rejected Baku’s allegations that Yerevan bombed the Azerbaijani region of Dashkesan and condemned the rival country’s attempts to “destabilize the region”.

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