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| Yerevan accused Baku of firing on Armenian forces on the border |
| 2021-08-01 |
| Direct Translation from Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The positions of the armed forces of Armenia near the village of Yeraskh, 70 km from Yerevan, were again fired upon by the Azerbaijani military. This was reported on July 31 on the website of the Armenian Defense Ministry. According to the latest information, no one from the Armenian side was injured as a result of the incident. "Units of the Azerbaijani armed forces undertook another provocation, firing at Armenian positions with small arms of various calibers," the statement of the Armenian military department says. As reported by IA REGNUM , on July 30, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Swedish Foreign Minister Anne Linde stated that Armenia and Azerbaijan must fulfill the agreements on the peaceful settlement of unresolved issues that were reached earlier. HISTORY OF THE ISSUE There is a problem of territorial delimitation between Armenia and Azerbaijan, since the places of compact residence of the two ethnic groups do not coincide with the formal state borders. There are no diplomatic relations between the two countries. Since the collapse of the Russian Empire, a war broke out between the Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. It was terminated with the formation of the USSR in 1922, when the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR were created as part of the Transcaucasian SFSR. During the Soviet period, the conflict was extinguished through the creation of autonomies and partial relocation of the population of the disputed areas. With the rise of nationalism during "perestroika" in 1987, the conflict began to flare up again, and after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, it turned into open war. The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan for the Nagorno-Karabakh region, located in the depths of the territory of Azerbaijan, populated by Armenians, continued until 1994. The Nagorno-Karabakh region and the regions separating it from the territory of Armenia proper remained under the control of the Armenians. The formally unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is not part of Armenia. From time to time, military clashes take place on the contact line. Citizens of Armenia are prohibited from entering Azerbaijan, as are citizens of any countries whose passports contain stamps on their stay in NKR. |
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