Tag: #Nargono
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‘This is our life’: Armenians flee before Azerbaijan arrives
Lachin, Azerbaijan, Nov 30 (AFP/APP):Prodding her cows forward with a long stick, Asya Petrosyan drives the herd along the snow-covered Lachin corridor, the last road out of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. With Azerbaijani forces preparing to take back this district on Tuesday, the 67-year-old is rushing to bring 30 animals more than 55 kilometres (35 miles)…
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Armenia PM urges stronger military links with Russia
Yerevan, Nov 21 (AFP/APP):Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called Saturday for greater military cooperation with Russia, a day after Azerbaijani troops began moving into disputed territory previously held by Armenian separatist forces. “We hope we can reinforce cooperation with Russia not only in the security sector but also military and technical cooperation,” he said, according…
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Azerbaijan reclaims disputed land in Karabakh peace deal
Aghdam, Azerbaijan, Nov 20 (AFP/APP):Armenia was due to hand over disputed territory to Azerbaijan on Friday as part of a contentious Russian-brokered peace accord that ended weeks of brutal fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Armenian residents of Azerbaijan’s Aghdam district hurriedly picked pomegranates and persimmons from trees surrounding their homes and packed vans with…
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Armenia cedes disputed land to Azerbaijan in Karabakh peace deal
Stepanakert, Azerbaijan, Nov 15 (AFP/APP):Armenia on Sunday was due to begin handing over disputed territory to Azerbaijan as part of a peace accord that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Residents of the Kalbajar district in Azerbaijan that was controlled by Armenian separatists for decades began a mass exodus of the…
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UN chief urges to find solution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 01 (APP):UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres remains “deeply concerned” over reports that hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone are continuing to affect civilians, his spokesperson said on Saturday. A statement issued by Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that the UN chief condemns the violence and reiterated that “both sides have the obligation, under international…
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Armed villagers guard strategic gateway to Nagorno-Karabakh
LACHIN CORRIDOR, October 27 (Online): Wearing camouflage and holding Kalashnikov rifles, volunteer villagers patrol a winding river in a Nagorno-Karabakh valley, defending a strategic area between the disputed region s capital and Armenia. Cannons are heard firing nearby at regular intervals as they too stand guard, covering the noisy gurgle of the Hakari river that…
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Coronavirus thrives in Karabakh’s bomb shelters
Stepanakert, Azerbaijan, Oct 24 (AFP/APP):Close quarters, poor ventilation and no masks: in the cellars of Stepanakert, the capital of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh province, residents who have not fled fierce fighting may be safe from shelling, but not coronavirus. Adjoining basements beneath one unassuming three-storey building in the city have been repurposed as a bomb shelter,…
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Putin says deaths from Karabakh fighting ‘nearing 5,000’
Moscow, Oct 22 (AFP/APP):Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that almost 5,000 people had died in more than three weeks of fighting between Armenian forces and Azerbaijan’s army over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. “According to our data, the number of deaths on both sides is almost 2,000, that is, the total number of deaths is…
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PM greets Azerbaijan on Independence Day; reiterates support on Nagorno-Karabakh issue
ISLAMABAD, Oct 18 (APP):Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday extended greetings to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the Azeri people as the country celebrated 29th Independence anniversary on the day. Azerbaijan first declared independence from the Russian Tsar under the chairmanship of Mehmet Emin Resulzade on May 28, 1918, but was occupied by the Soviet…
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Azerbaijani drone strikes pick off Karabakh artillery
Karmir Shuka, Azerbaïdjan, Oct 17 (AFP/APP):The red mulberry trees meant to conceal them were not enough: Azerbaijani night-time drone strikes destroyed seven artillery guns in a field in Karmir Shuka, in southeast Nagorno Karabakh. Armenian separatists had towed the guns down off the road, around 20 or 10 metres (yards) from each other, hooked up…