Russia and Azerbaijan trade barbs over Nagorno-Karabakh

March 27 (Reuters) – Russia and Azerbaijan on Sunday traded barbs over the motion of Azeri forces in Nagorno-Karabakh the place a simmering dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan flared right into a six-week conflict in 2020.

Azeri troops in 2020 drove ethnic Armenian forces out of swathes of territory that they had managed for the reason that Nineties in and round Nagorno-Karabakh earlier than Russia brokered a ceasefire.

Russia mentioned on Saturday it was deeply involved a few rise in tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh and known as for calm after what it mentioned had been breaches of the 2020 ceasefire brokered by President Vladimir Putin.

Russia mentioned Azerbaijan had violated the settlement by permitting its forces to enter a zone policed by Russian peacekeepers close to the village of Farrukh however that Azerbaijan had by Sunday withdrawn the troopers.

Azerbaijan, although, denied the Russian assertion.

“There was no change within the positions of the Azeri military within the village of Farrukh, which is a part of the sovereign territories of our nation,” the Azeri defence ministry mentioned.

“The details about the withdrawal of models of the Azerbaijani Military from these positions doesn’t mirror the reality. Our military is in full management of the operational state of affairs,” Azerbaijan’s defence ministry mentioned in an announcement.

Reporting by Reuters; modifying by Man Faulconbridge, William Maclean

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