{"id":16869,"date":"2020-09-28T11:21:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T06:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16869"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T06:21:42","slug":"us-mideast-asia-alarmed-over-armenia-azerbaijan-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16869","title":{"rendered":"US, Mideast, Asia alarmed over Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEHRAN, IRAN\/NUR-SULTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, <\/strong>NEW YORK\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Middle East and Asian countries expressed concern Sunday over escalating hostilities after Armenian forces shelled Azerbaijani military and civilian positions in the occupied Upper Karabakh, or Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n

Iran called on Azerbaijan and Armenia to end the conflict and start talks.<\/p>\n

Tehran is keeping a close watch on the conflict with concern, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh.<\/p>\n

Iran is ready to use all its capacities to establish a cease-fire and start talks between the two sides, Khatibzadeh noted.<\/p>\n

Pakistan threw its weight behind Azerbaijan following Armenia\u2019s border violations and attacks in Upper Karabakh.<\/p>\n

“Pakistan stands with the brotherly nation of Azerbaijan and supports its right of self-defense,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“We support Azerbaijan\u2019s position on Nagorno-Karabakh, which is in line with several unanimously adopted UN Security Council resolutions,” it added.<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan called on Yerevan and Baku to end the conflict, the country\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Expressing its deep concern, the ministry said Nur-Sultan urges the two countries to take all measures to stabilize the situation and start a dialogue.<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan’s international organizations are also ready to help in seeking peaceful ways to end the conflict, the statement added.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump said Sunday that the US is looking into what can be done to stop the violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters at a White House press conference that the US has \u201ca lot of good relationships in that area. We will see if we can stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Border clashes broke out early Sunday after Armenian forces targeted Azerbaijani civilian settlements and military positions in the region, which is also known as Upper Karabakh.<\/p>\n

Relations between the two former Soviet nations have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military ‘occupied’ Upper Karabakh, an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

Four UN Security Council and two UN General Assembly resolutions as well as many international organizations demand the withdrawal of the occupying forces.<\/p>\n

The OSCE Minsk Group\u00a0 co-chaired by France, Russia and the US\u00a0 was formed in 1992 to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, but to no avail. A cease-fire, however, was agreed upon in 1994.<\/p>\n

France, Russia and NATO, among others, have urged an immediate halt to clashes in the occupied region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TEHRAN, IRAN\/NUR-SULTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, NEW YORK\u00a0 Middle East and Asian countries expressed concern Sunday over escalating hostilities after Armenian forces shelled Azerbaijani military and civilian positions in the occupied Upper Karabakh, or Nagorno-Karabakh region. Iran called on Azerbaijan and Armenia to end the conflict and start talks. Tehran is keeping a close watch on the conflict […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,1366,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16871,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869\/revisions\/16871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}