Over the past 24 hours, Armenia’s armed forces have 130 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told APA on Dec. 9.

Armenians were using heavy machine guns.

The Azerbaijani army positions in Kohnagishlag village of Aghstafa district, in Kamarli, Gizilhajili villages of Gazakh district came under fire from the Armenian army positions located on nameless heights in Noyemberyan district, in Berkaber, Paravakar villages and on nameless heights in Ijevan district of Armenia.

Meanwhile, Armenia’s armed units stationed in Mosesgekh, Chinari, Aygedzor villages and on nameless heights in Berd district shelled the Azerbaijani army positions located in Aghdam, Munjuglu and Garalar villages of Tovuz district.

The Azerbaijani army positions in Zamanli village of Gadabay district also underwent fire from the Armenian army positions located on nameless heights in Krasnoselsk district.

The Azerbaijani army positions were shelled from the Armenian army positions located near the Armenian-occupied Goyarkh, Chilaburt, Yarimja villages of Tartar district, Taghibeyli, Shikhlar, Bash Garvand, Javahirli, Abdinli, Garagashli, Sarijali, Novruzlu, Yusifjanli, Marzili villages of Aghdamdistrict, Kuropatkino village of Khojavend district, Ashaghi Veysalli, Garvand, Garakhanbeyli, Ashaghi Seyidahmadli, Gorgan, Kurdlar, Horadiz villages of Fuzuli district, Nuzgar villages of Jabrail district, as well as from the positions located on nameless heights in Goranboy, Tartar, Aghdam, Khojavend and Fuzuli districts.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.

A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.

The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.

Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCEMinsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the CSCE (OSCE after the Budapest summit held in December 1994) Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.

Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, the US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.

Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Source     en.apa.az