{"id":98543,"date":"2020-10-27T09:51:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=98543"},"modified":"2020-10-27T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:51:56","slug":"azerbaijan-and-armenia-accuse-each-other-of-violating-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=98543","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan and Armenia accuse each other of violating ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/Azerbaijan-and-Armenia-accuse-each-other-of-violating-ceasefire-1093615?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/833\/83393510.295.jpg\" alt=\"Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry said on Monday its soldiers in the village of Safiyan were shot t\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BAKU, Oct 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region shortly after it came into effect on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two former Soviet republics have been engaged in a flare-up over the disputed South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled for decades by Christian Armenian troops but considered by the United Nations as part of predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azerbaijan&#8217;s Defence Ministry in Baku said on Monday that its soldiers in the village of Safiyan were shot at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh rejected this, and the Armenian Defence Ministry in Yerevan accused Baku of targeted disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azerbaijan&#8217;s armed forces resumed artillery shelling 45 minutes after the ceasefire came into effect, a ministry spokeswoman in Yerevan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest attempt at a pause in fighting was agreed upon in Moscow and facilitated by the US. It came into force on Monday at 8 am (0400 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both countries had reaffirmed their commitment to the truce on Saturday, according to a joint news release from the US State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azerbaijan lost control of the mountainous area with around 145,000 inhabitants in a war after the collapse of the Soviet Union around 30 years ago. A fragile ceasefire has existed since 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cultural, religious and historical ties link Azerbaijan to Turkey, and similarly Armenia to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent heavy fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh flared up again on Sept 27. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAKU, Oct 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region shortly after it came into effect on Monday. The two former Soviet republics have been engaged in a flare-up over the disputed South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled for decades by Christian Armenian troops but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":98546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}