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Azerbaijan initiates criminal case over Armenia’s provocation (UPDATE)

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict Materials 5 July 2017 10:57 (UTC +04:00)
The prosecutor’s office of Azerbaijan’s Fizuli district has initiated a criminal case over Armenia’s provocative actions on the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, as a result of which civilians were killed and injured

Details added (first version posted on 10:28)

Baku, Azerbaijan, July 5

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The prosecutor’s office of Azerbaijan’s Fizuli district has initiated a criminal case over Armenia’s provocative actions on the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, as a result of which civilians were killed and injured, the Azerbaijani Prosecutor General’s Office said in a message July 5.

On July 4 at about 20:40 (GMT+4 hours), the Armenian armed forces again violated ceasefire and, using 82-mm and 120-mm mortars and grenade launchers, shelled Azerbaijani positions and territories where the civilian population lives, namely the Alkhanli village of the country’s Fuzuli district, thereby grossly violating the requirements of international law, the message said.

As a result of this provocation, the residents of the village Sakhiba Guliyeva (born in 1967) and Zakhra Guliyeva (born in 2015) were killed. Servinaz Guliyeva (born in 1965), who got wounded, was taken to the hospital and was operated on.

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 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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