3 women killed in Azerbaijan’s shelling of NE Armenia
Armenian officials say three women have lost their lives after the Azerbaijani army shelled Tavush region in northeastern Armenia.
"A 70-year-old woman was killed in the village of Paravakar, and two other women, aged 94 and 41, were killed in the village of Berdavan. Two other civilians were wounded," said Armenia's Interior Ministry Spokesman Ashot Agaronyan on Thursday.
Agaronyan added that the Azerbaijani armed forces continued to target the area with “large-caliber mortars” on Thursday evening.
Meanwhile, Armenia’s Defense Ministry condemned the deadly attack as an "act of provocation," saying it will derail diplomatic efforts to resolve the decades-long border conflict between the two states.
"Our neighbor’s military leadership shows complete disdain towards diplomatic efforts aimed at finding a negotiated solution to the (Karabakh) conflict," the ministry said in a statement, adding, "Armenia will take appropriate steps to pacify Azerbaijani armed forces.”
This is while reports say that the foreign ministers of the two countries are scheduled to hold talks on the sidelines of the the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The two ex-Soviet Caucasus nations claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control over the enclave, which accounts for 16 percent of Azerbaijan, in the early 1990s during a six-year war that lasted from February 1988 to May 1994.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million displaced before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. However, a permanent peace accord has never been inked and the dispute still remains unsettled.
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the region by force if negotiations between the two sides fail to yield results, while Armenia has pledged to retaliate against any military action.
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