2023-09-19 18:10:20
Azerbaijan launched a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday September 19, three years after the previous war. He requests withdrawal “total and unconditional” of his Armenian adversary from this region disputed for decades with Armenia. The fighting killed at least two civilians and injured 23 others, Armenian separatist authorities said, while Baku assured that it was only targeting military targets. Follow our live stream.
Nagorno-Karabakh separatist forces say they are trying to “resist” to the Azerbaijani army which is trying to advance “in depth” in the enclave.
Armenian diplomacy denounces “large-scale aggression” for the purposes of “ethnic cleansing”. Yerevan judges that Russia, guarantor of a ceasefire dating from 2020 with peacekeeping forces on the ground, must “stop Azerbaijani aggression”.
Russia says to itself “concerned” by the “brutal escalation” of the situation. The Kremlin strives to bring back Yerevan and Baku “at the negotiating table”the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
“Illegal, unjustifiable, unacceptable.” France condemns “with the greatest firmness” Azerbaijan’s launch of the military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh and demands “the emergency convening of a meeting of the United Nations Security Council”.
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