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Live Updates: Azerbaijan's President Blames Armenia for Destruction of Karabakh Infrastructure

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BAKU (Sputnik) - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said Armenia will be held responsible for the destruction of infrastructure in the territories of the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic that have come under the control of Azerbaijan.

"The enemy destroyed the entire infrastructure. They will answer for everything in an international court. I said and I want to repeat again that international structures, experts will be involved, all the damage will be calculated, and we will demand compensation for 30 years. These days they destroyed Kalbajar, houses, forests. They will also answer for all this", he said. Fragments of the president's speech have been posted on a social network by his wife.

Aliyev on Monday visited the districts of Fuzuli and Jabrayil, now under the control of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

On 10 November, the heads of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia - Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev, and Nikol Pashinyan - signed a joint statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.

According to the statement, Armenia and Azerbaijan are to stop at their occupied positions, a number of districts will come under Baku's control, the sides will exchange prisoners, and Russian peacekeepers are to be deployed along the contact line and the Lachin corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.

Pashinyan said the decision to sign the agreement had been extremely difficult for him. According to him, if the document had not been signed, it would be much worse for Armenia. Aliyev called the signing of the statement a surrender by Armenia.

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"We must remove the ambiguities over refugees, the delimitation of the ceasefire, the presence of Turkey, the return of fighters and on the start of negotiations on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh," French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the country's parliament.

Le Drian said the issues would be discussed by a meeting in Moscow of the so-called Minsk Group - a talking shop that works to find a solution to the conflict. The meeting is co-chaired by France, Russia and the United States.

15:21 GMT 17.11.2020
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BRICS countries welcome the ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Karabakh region and support political efforts to restore peace there, the declaration, which was adopted at the summit of BRICS leaders, said.

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa said they supported further political and diplomatic efforts aimed at restoring peace in the region.

13:06 GMT 17.11.2020

"At the moment we do not see any attempts to rewrite or revise the statement that was issued", Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that Moscow would "do everything so that such attempts do not occur and in any case do not succeed".

The Russian foreign minister pointed to the unanimity among 17 Armenian opposition parties in "having spoken against any attempts to revise the statement."

10:25 GMT 17.11.2020

"I found it strange to hear that ... To be honest, I think that such statements either show that their authors are not sufficiently aware of the situation, or result from some misunderstanding," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters.

According to Lavrov, the US has been briefed on the agreement, signed by Russia's, Armenia's and Azerbaijan's political leaders earlier this fall, the deputy secretary of state has received all the information, since Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on a long foreign trip.

Apart from that, Russia maintains cooperation with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Minsk Group, co-chaired by the United States, the foreign minister noted.

In the past 10 days, the presidents of Russia and France held two detailed phone conversations on Karabakh, Lavrov went on to say.

Earlier in the day, a senior US State Department official said that Washington and Paris seek clarity on the parameters of the deal, including Turkey's role.

09:38 GMT 17.11.2020
09:35 GMT 17.11.2020

"The information, spread on social media, that Azerbaijani forces allegedly conducted an attack on the Uryan height and that 200 servicemen of the defense army were encircled ... is complete disinformation. The ceasefire is being implemented. We call on everyone to only follow official information", the Karabakh army wrote on Facebook.

09:00 GMT 17.11.2020
08:39 GMT 17.11.2020

Armenian opposition lawmaker Naira Zohrabyan, from the Prosperous Armenia party, on Tuesday called on her colleagues to cancel the martial law in the country and relieve Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of his position.

"Today, in this assembly hall, we must discuss only one matter [which is] the cancellation of the martial law and Nikol Pashinyan's resignation, we have no moral right to discuss other issues", Zohrabyan said while speaking at the legislature.

08:19 GMT 17.11.2020
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07:58 GMT 17.11.2020

"A new interim measure request has been submitted to the ECHR against Azerbaijan to prevent inhuman and degrading treatment as well as irreparable harm to lives of 10 civilians who were captured on their way from Goris to Shushi", the office of the Armenian representative before the ECHR said in a statement posted on Facebook.

07:06 GMT 17.11.2020

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appreciates the efforts of Russian peacekeepers who have been deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement that brought the six-week conflict to a close, Peter Maurer, the committee's president, told Sputnik in an interview.

"I really want to highlight our appreciation to the Russian peacekeeping forces on the ground because I understand we have very good and very close contact to cooperate for the safety of the roads which we are taking. We have very close cooperation between ICRC and the Russian peacekeepers," Maurer remarked.

05:45 GMT 17.11.2020

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian says most of the participants of the political consultations he has held following the signing of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace agreement by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan agree that the latter should resign.

"The vast majority of the participants in the meetings were unanimous in the opinion that the resignation or termination of the powers of the Prime Minister and early parliamentary elections are necessary," Sarkissian said in an address, the text of which was published on the president’s website on Monday.

According to Sarkissian, a national unity government should rule the country until early parliamentary elections are held.

Pashinyan said on Monday that he had no plans to resign despite a growing chorus of calls for him to step down after signing the ceasefire agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh.

Over a dozen opposition parties rallied in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, on Monday calling for the prime minister to vacate his post after ceding large swathes of territory in and around Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan in a peace agreement last week.

The ceasefire deal was brokered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and was signed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Pashinyan after weeks of hostilities in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Per the agreement, Azerbaijan would retain control of the territories it captured during the conflict, while Russia would deploy peacekeepers along the line of contact of the warring parties and in the Lachin Corridor connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.

Under the deal, Armenia also agreed to hand over all the Azeri-majority buffer territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh which have been under its de facto control since 1994 - something that has prompted growing calls among the population for a change of leadership in Armenia.

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