Armenia called on the international community to help stop Azerbaijan’s “aggressive actions” following an outbreak of violence between neighbors in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh who killed three soldiers.
Yerevan “calls on the international community to take measures to stop the aggressive actions and attitudes of Azerbaijan and to activate the necessary mechanisms to do so”, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Armenian declaration comes after Azerbaijan announced that it had taken control of several strategic points in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The Azerbaijani army said it carried out the operation called “Revenge” in response to “Actions of illegal Armenian armed groups on the territory of Azerbaijan” who claimed the life of an Azeri soldier.
At the same time, the self-proclaimed republic declared partial mobilization after accusing the attack.
“The President of the Republic of Artsakh (Armenian name of Nagorno-Karabakh), Araik Harutiunián, signed a decree declaring partial mobilization from August 3, 2022″, says a statement from the press service of the Karabakh Presidency, quoted by the agency armenpress.
Previously, local authorities had reported two dead and fourteen wounded because of “gross violation of the ceasefire” by Azerbaijani troops in the region.
According to the Armenian media, new tensions erupted near the town of Berdzorthrough which the Lachin land corridor passes, linking Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh.
This morning, Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan said that Baku’s demand to now replace the communication channel with Lachin lacks legitimacy.
Archenemies Armenia and Azerbaijan fought two wars, in 2020 and in the 1990s, over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh of Azerbaijan, populated by Armenians.
Six weeks of fighting in the fall of 2020 paid off more than 6500 lives and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement.
Armenia ceded swathes of territory it had controlled for decades Y Russia deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers to oversee the fragile truce, but tensions persist despite a ceasefire agreement.
The agreement signed with the mediation of Russia stipulates that in three years the parties must agree on “the construction plan of a new transit route” in the Lachin corridor.
Armenia states that it has already proposed to coordinate and sign in a trilateral format (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia) a new planbut this initiative has not yet materialized on paper.
This Tuesday the renewed tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh were addressed by the Russian president, Vladimir Putinand the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinian.
(With information from EFE and AFP)
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Source-www.infobae.com