Azerbaijani leader warns Nagorno-Karabakh truce 'fragile'
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| Publication Date | 7 June 2016 |
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June 07, 2016
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a press conference following their meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on June 7.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said he wants a peaceful resolution to the conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Recent developments in the region on the line of conflict show the cease-fire is not stable, it is fragile," Aliyev told a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on June 7. "The status quo is not acceptable."
In early April, a truce halted four days of fierce fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia-backed separatists and Azerbaijan's military – the worst fighting seen in the region since a fragile cease-fire deal was reached in the early 1990s.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents renewed last month their commitment to a cease-fire and to a peaceful settlement of the conflict.
Baku and Yerevan have been locked in conflict over Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh for decades.
Armenian-backed separatists seized the mainly Armenian-populated region from Azerbaijan during a war in the early 1990s that killed some 30,000 people.
Diplomatic efforts to reach a permanent settlement have brought little progress.
Based on reporting by Reuters and Interfax
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