Azerbaijan says about 2,800 of its military personnel were killed in recent fighting with Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Details have been released for the first time regarding the military casualties suffered by Azerbaijan in recent clashes with Armenian forces.
According to the foreign news agency ‘AFP’, the statement issued by the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan said that “2 thousand 783 personnel of the armed forces of Azerbaijan were killed in the patriotic war, while another 100 soldiers are missing”.
Earlier, Armenia announced that 2,317 of its military personnel were killed in the fighting, as well as claiming that at least 93 Azerbaijanis and 50 Armenians were also killed.
It should be noted that with the independence of Azerbaijan and Armenia from the Soviet Union in 1990, the conflict with the separatists in Karabakh started and 30 thousand people were killed in the early years.
Between the two countries since 1994 until the recent fighting, there has been no clear progress in the negotiations to resolve the conflict, but there have been several ceasefire agreements.
Armenian-backed separatists wrested control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region from Baku in the 1990s, but Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.
Later, France, Russia and the United States played the role of mediators, but in 2010, the peace agreement once again collapsed.
Fresh clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh broke out on September 27, with France, Russia and the US trying to establish a ceasefire.
Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a cease-fire agreement on November 9 after the worst fighting, and it was celebrated as a victory in Azerbaijan.
Under the agreement, Armenia lost control of 7 districts it had captured in fighting in the 1990s.
The Prime Minister of Armenia called it a tragedy and said that seeing the signs of defeat, there was no other choice.
After the ceasefire agreement, there were strong protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Armenia, calling him a traitor and calling for his resignation.
He urged the protesters to refrain from armed protests and expected that the opposition would also reject the move.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Russian and Turkish forces will monitor Nagorno-Karabakh, while Armenians will leave the disputed region.
The Russian and Turkish defense ministers signed a memorandum and agreed to establish a joint surveillance center in Azerbaijan.
It should be noted that the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is spread over 4 thousand 400 square kilometers and 50 kilometers is connected to the border with Armenia.
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2024-10-03 14:33:30
