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Armenia previously accused Baku of using mercenaries from Syria in Karabakh, saying that Ankara had helped militants enter the area.

A new round of hostilities erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh on 27 September, with Baku subsequently launching a partial mobilisation and announcing a "counter-offensive", while Yerevan launched a full mobilisation to defend the breakaway republic.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict flared up in the late 1980s, with the predominantly Armenian-populated autonomy proclaiming independence from Azerbaijan in 1991. As a result, Baku and Yerevan waged a full-scale war for the area between 1992 and 1994 that claimed the lives of around 40,000 troops and civilians from both sides.

A ceasefire was signed in 1994, and the conflict remained frozen, while the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic still continues to be an unrecognised state.

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19:31 GMT 02.11.2020

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin had phone talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, they discussed the situation in Karabakh, the Kremlin said in a statement on Monday.

"On November 1 and November 2, respectively, Russian President Vladimir Putin had phone conversations with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The issues of the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were thoroughly discussed," the statement says.

18:26 GMT 02.11.2020
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday called for an immediate halt to all indiscriminate attacks in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, warning that strikes on civilian areas could amount to war crimes.

"Attacks carried out in violation of the principle of distinction or the principle of proportionality may amount to war crimes, and the parties to the conflict are obliged to effectively, promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigate such violations and to prosecute those alleged to have committed them", Bachelet said. "Such attacks must stop and those responsible for carrying them out, or ordering them, must be held to account."

Bachelet underscored that there have been repeated calls to avoid or at the very least minimise civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure since the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia reignited in late September.

Last week, Azerbaijan Prosecutor General's Office said that at least 19 people were killed and 60 were injured as a result of Armenia's attack on Barda with banned cluster munitions. The accusations come after a Tuesday attack on the village of Qarayusifli in the Barda region in which four people were killed and another 14 were injured.

"Amid deeply troubling reports that cluster munitions have been used by both parties, I call once again on Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop using them, and to join the more than 100 States that have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions which comprehensively bans their use", Bachelet said.

Bachelet has called on both sides to the conflict to depoliticise the matter of providing human rights and humanitarian access to all areas impacted by the conflict.

"The outbreak of hostilities clearly poses a direct threat to public health with already limited resources diverted from combatting a health emergency to waging a long-standing conflict. The fighting is also strikingly in opposition to the UN Secretary-General’s call for a global ceasefire amid the pandemic", she said.

Armed hostilities between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh have been ongoing since September 27. The parties have since agreed to three humanitarian ceasefires, however, all three were broken mere hours after entering into force.

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12:53 GMT 02.11.2020

Azeri forces have taken control of several more villages in the Karabakh districts of Jabrayil, Zangilan, and Qubadli, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said Monday.

12:42 GMT 02.11.2020
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12:27 GMT 02.11.2020

BAKU (Sputnik) - Azeri forces have taken control of several more villages in the Karabakh districts of Jabrayil, Zangilan, and Qubadli, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said Monday.

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10:20 GMT 02.11.2020

The efforts of international mediators to help solve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh have not brought any results, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said Monday.

"Our territory has been occupied for 30 years. The efforts of international mediators have been fruitless. We saw attempts to prolong, freeze the conflict, make the occupation permanent," Aliyev said, as aired by AZTV broadcaster.

09:54 GMT 02.11.2020

Moscow does not have all of the information about the idea to deploy Scandinavian peacemakers in Nagorno-Karabakh, but believes that all parameters must be agreed with all parties to the conflict, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said Monday.

United States National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien said last week that Washington was working with Scandinavian countries on a potential peacekeeping mission that could be sent to Nagorno-Karabakh to support a ceasefire. According to O'Brien, any peacekeeping mission in the region should not include forces of Minsk group co-chairs (Russia, France, the United States).

"It is a question for Americans where they got the idea from. All parameters for possible mechanisms must be agreed through consultations with the parties to the conflict," Rudenko told reporters.

When asked if Moscow was aware of this idea, the deputy minister said, " We know as much as you do — what O'Brien said."

09:26 GMT 02.11.2020
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07:03 GMT 02.11.2020

The Defence Ministry of Azerbaijan said Monday that its forces had downed Armenia's Su-25 plane, which attacked their positions.

"As our personnel was on guard, the Su-25 jet, which attacked our position from the air, was downed," the ministry said.

05:29 GMT 02.11.2020

BAKU (Sputnik) - The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry on Monday accused the Armenian Armed Forces of shelling the regions of Agdam and Agjabedi, located near the combat zone in the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.

"The Armenian Armed Forces have been shelling the villages of the Aghdam and Aghjabedi regions since 06:00 a.m. [02:00 GMT] on 2 November", the ministry said in a statement.

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