Azerbaijan says it's delivering food and other humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh, two days after a cease-fire with ethnic Armenian separatists.
Azerbaijan said it was delivering food and other humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday, two days after the region’s ethnic Armenian separatist governmentNagorno-Karabakh’s 120,000 people have suffered severe shortages of food and medicine since late last year when aconnecting the region to Armenia.
Azerbaijan on Tuesday launched intense fire on Armenian positions in what it called an “anti-terrorist operation,” demanding that the Armenians lay down their arms and the separatist government disband.
Azerbaijan’s emergencies ministry said two 20-ton trucks with food and hygiene products as well as two trucks with bread were dispatched to Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday, traveling on the road from Aghdam, which lies east of the region. Supplies for Nagorno-Karabakh previously had come from Armenia, to the west.
Jeyhun Bayramov, Azerbaijan’s foreign minister, said at the United Nations on Thursday that his country was determined to guarantee Nagorno-Karabakh residents “all rights and freedoms” in line with the country’s constitution and international human rights obligations, including safeguards for ethnic minorities. Talks with Nagorno-Karabakh in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh will continue, he said.
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