BAKU (Sputnik) — The Armenian military has violated the ceasefire along the contact line in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh 155 times over the past 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said Saturday in a statement.
"Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 155 times throughout the day, using large-caliber machine guns and 60 millimeter mortars (17 shells)," the statement reads.
31 March 2017, 07:33 GMT
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) proclaimed its independence from Azerbaijan in 1991. The military conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia ended in 1994, and Azerbaijan lost control over this Armenian-dominated region. The OSCE Minsk group has been trying to settle the conflict since 1992.
In April 2016, the clashes between the joint Armenian-NKR and Azerbaijani forces sparked in the region, when both sides accused each other of ceasefire violation. The sides agreed to a ceasefire on April 5, but clashes have continued.
