BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) - A U.S.-backed ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh was in jeopardy on Monday as Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces renewed fighting in the mountain enclave, defying international efforts to end a conflict that has killed hundreds in the last month.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised address that he wanted to resolve the conflict “by political and military means” after both sides accused each other of breaking a truce agreed hours earlier in Washington.
Speaking live on Facebook later on Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he did not believe Azerbaijan was interested in a peaceful resolution to the conflict. “The Armenian people are ready for mutual concessions, even painful ones, but not for the capitulation of Karabakh,” he said.
The latest fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of Azerbaijan populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians, erupted on Sept. 27 and is the worst in the South Caucasus since the 1990s. Two Russian-brokered ceasefires have failed to hold.
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WNU Editor: I do not see this war ending anytime soon. Both sides have no interest to stop. Azerbaijan is committed to taking territory that it says belongs to them, and Armenia is committed to defending this territory. The fact that Turkey is providing equipment/logistical/and manpower to Azerbaijan tells me that Azerbaijan will not stop until they have achieved their military objectives.
