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Azerbaijan calls unilateral truce in Nagorno-Karabakh – Al JAzeera

Editor April 3, 2016

Azerbaijan has said it is unilaterally ceasing fire in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a day after fighting with Armenian forces killed at least 30.

But Armenia’s defense ministry almost immediately rejected the ceasefire, describing the Azeri defense ministry’s statement as “an information trap”.

“This statement does not mean the halt of military action,” the defense minister’s press secretary, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, said on Facebook.

Nagorno-Karabakh has been under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military since a war ended in 1994.

The Armenia Defence Ministry said Azerbaijani troops started an offensive with tanks and artillery on Saturday. Azerbaijan denied those allegations, saying its soldiers were reacting to heavy attacks from the Armenian side.

Armenia said 18 of its forces were killed and Azerbaijan reported it had 12 dead.

Analysts say the conflict is fuelled by long-simmering tensions in the region between Christian Armenians and mostly Muslim Azeris.

Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands, reporting from Moscow, said the dispute between the two nations had the potential to spiral into a serious regional conflict.

“The trigger for the surge in fighting still seems to be local but the reasons still appear to be quite murky,” he said.(Al Jazeera)
Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/azerbaijan-calls-unilateral-truce-nagorno-karabakh-160403100538281.html
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