{"id":17085,"date":"2020-10-12T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17085"},"modified":"2020-10-12T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T06:25:14","slug":"in-breach-of-truce-armenia-army-attack-on-azerbaijan-kills-1-civilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17085","title":{"rendered":"In breach of truce, Armenia army attack on Azerbaijan kills 1 civilian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BAKU, Azerbaijan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One civilian was killed in Azerbaijan on Saturday when the Armenia army targeted Azerbaijani settlements despite a cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani prosecutors said in a statement that the villages of Chemenli and Zengishali in the Agdam province came under artillery firing of the Armenia Armed Forces around 7 p.m. local time (0300GMT).<\/p>\n<p>Gunduz Huseynov, 46, died in the attack hitting Chemenli. The number of civilians who lost their lives in the Armenian attacks in the last two weeks increased to 32.<\/p>\n<p>A humanitarian cease-fire agreed for the exchange of prisoners and retrieval of bodies in Nagorno-Karabakh came into force at 12 p.m. local time (0800GMT) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The truce came after a trilateral meeting in Moscow on Friday between the foreign ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Azerbaijan\u2019s Defense Ministry said Armenia is \u201cgrossly\u201d violating the cease-fire agreement by trying to mount attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting began on Sept. 27, when Armenian forces targeted civilian Azerbaijani settlements and military positions in the Upper Karabakh region, leading to casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Many world powers, including Russia, France, and the US, have urged a new cease-fire. Turkey, meanwhile, has supported Baku&#8217;s right to self-defense and demanded the withdrawal of Armenia&#8217;s occupying forces.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the two former Soviet republics have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Upper Karabakh, or Nagorno-Karabakh, an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Some 20% of Azerbaijan&#8217;s territory has remained under illegal Armenian occupation for some three decades.<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAKU, Azerbaijan\u00a0 One civilian was killed in Azerbaijan on Saturday when the Armenia army targeted Azerbaijani settlements despite a cease-fire. Azerbaijani prosecutors said in a statement that the villages of Chemenli and Zengishali in the Agdam province came under artillery firing of the Armenia Armed Forces around 7 p.m. local time (0300GMT). Gunduz Huseynov, 46, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085","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=17085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17087,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085\/revisions\/17087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}