Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 30
Trend:
Over the past 24 hours, Armenian military 109 times violated ceasefire on various parts of contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, according to a message issued by Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry Oct. 30.
Armenian armed forces, stationed on nameless heights in Armenia's Ijevan district opened fire at Azerbaijani army positions located on nameless heights of Gazakh district.
Aside from that, Armenian soldiers, stationed in the Mosesgeh village of Armenia's Berd district opened fire at Azerbaijani positions in the Aghdam village of Tovuz district.
Armenians also fired at Azerbaijani positions on nameless heights of Gadabay district from their positions in the Chil village and on nameless heights in Armenia's Krasnoselsk district.
Azerbaijani army position also came under Armenians' fire from positions near the Talish, Tapgaragoyunlu, Gulustan villages of Goranboy district, Goyarkh, Chilyaburt, Chayli, Yarimja, Gizil Oba villages of Tartar district, Javahirli, Kangarli, Sarijali, Shuraabad, Marzili, Novruzlu, Shikhlar, Bash Garvand, Garagashli villages of Agdam district, Kuropatkino village of Khojavand district, Horadiz, Gorgan, Garakhanbeyli, Ashagi Abdurrahmanli villages of Fizuli district and Mehdili village of Jabrail district.
Armenian army was also firing at Azerbaijani soldiers from positions on the nameless heights in the Goy-Gol, Goranboy, Khojavand, Fuzuli and Jabrail districts.
In view of the operational situation, the Azerbaijani armed forces inflicted 110 strikes on enemy positions.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.