BAKU, Oct 18 — Armenia and Azerbaijan said they had agreed yesterday to a new humanitarian ceasefire from midnight (2000 GMT) in fighting over Azerbaijan's ethnic Armenian-controlled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Both sides had accused each other earlier of fresh attacks in violation of a week-old...
An injured man sits on a bench near a hospital in Stepanakert in the course of a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, October 17, 2020. — Reuters pic
Azerbaijan had said 13 civilians had been killed and more than 50 wounded in the city of Ganja by missiles from Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia, which supports Nagorno-Karabakh politically and economically and sends volunteers to serve in its army, accused Azerbaijan of shelling populated areas of the enclave and bombing targets in Armenia.
Nagorno-Karabakh's foreign ministry issued a statement saying it “reaffirms its readiness to maintain the terms of the humanitarian ceasefire on a reciprocal basis ... according to the Moscow statement of October 10 and the agreements of October 17.” Armenia on Saturday denied an Azeri assertion that it had been illegally arming Nagorno-Karabakh, and accused Azerbaijan of acting to expand Turkey's influence in the region and of using Turkish soldiers — charges both Ankara and Baku deny.
“We have been living in fear for days ... We are suffering a lot,” one resident of the city, 58-year-old Emina Aliyeva, told reporters. “We would rather die. I wish we were dead but our children would survive.”
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