Azerbaijan offers 'last chance' to Armenia to settle Karabakh conflict peacefully as Russia-brokered talks between both rivals begin in Moscow
Azerbaijani FM Jeyhun Bayramov , Russian FM Sergey Lavrov , and Armenian FM Zohrab Mnatsakanyan hold talks in Moscow on October 9, 2020.
"It has begun," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Facebook, posting a picture of diplomats of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan sitting at a round table in Moscow "We are moving towards a truce tonight or tomorrow but it's still fragile," President Emmanuel Macron's office said in a statement to AFP news agency.Armenia targeting civilians
"Attempting to make the war spill over into other civilian settlements outside of Karabakh, Armenia continues to commit crimes of humanity and war," it added. Aliyev has repeatedly said there would be no halt to fighting until Armenian troops withdraw and vowed to continue the intervention until his army captured all of the occupied Karabakh and other Azerbaijani areas controlled by Armenia.
"If they're calling only for a ceasefire, if they're working only towards a ceasefire, it will be nothing more than a repeat of what went on for the last 30 years or so," Kalin told Al Jazeera in an interview.READ MORE: Fighting in one of the most combustible frozen conflicts resulting from the fall of the Soviet Union reignited on September 27, when Armenian forces targeted Azerbaijani civilian settlements and military positions, leading to casualties.
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