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Azeris and Armenians say civilian areas attacked, NATO seeks ceasefire

Azeris and Armenians say civilian areas attacked, NATO seeks ceasefire

NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and NAILIA BAGIVORA ARMENIA and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on the ninth day of the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg added his voice to calls for an immediate end to the clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under international law but is populated and governed by ethnic Armenians. But prospects for a ceasefire appeared remote after the fighting intensified over the weekend and following uncompromising comments by Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. In an address to the nation…
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Azerbaijan’s leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable

Azerbaijan’s leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable

NAILIA BAGIVORA and NVARD HOVHANNISYAN AZERBAIJAN’S President Ilham Aliyev has demanded that Armenia set a timetable for withdrawing from the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding Azeri territories, and said Azerbaijan would not cease military action until that happened. In a televised address to the nation, Aliyev said Azeri forces were advancing in a week-long offensive to retake lands that they lost to ethnic Armenians in the 1990s. "The Azeri soldier is chasing them like a dog, the Azeri soldier is standing at their posts, we have taken their weaponry, we are carrying out the mission of liberation," he declared. The…
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