The two parties to the conflict exchange accusations of violating it

Battles continue in the Nagorno Karabakh region ... despite the truce

A man looks at the destroyed houses as a result of the bombing in Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Yesterday, the Armenian forces in Nagorno Karabakh and the Azerbaijani army continued fighting in several areas on the front, in violation of the humanitarian armistice agreement, for the fourth consecutive day.

As has been the case since the resumption of the fighting on 27 September, the two sides share responsibility for the hostilities, which resulted in about 600 deaths, including 67 civilians, according to a partial census.

Azerbaijan did not announce any deaths among its forces.

Militants in Nagorny Karabakh accused the Azerbaijani army of launching a tripartite attack in the south, north and northeast of the declared region unilaterally.

For its part, Baku affirmed that it "respects the ceasefire," but the Armenians fired on the Azerbaijani regions of Goranboy, Tartar and Agdam.

The humanitarian truce, brokered by Russia, which took effect on Saturday, aims to allow the two parties to exchange prisoners and the bodies of the dead, who fell in the worst fighting over Nagorny Karabakh, in more than 25 years.

It seemed that the truce became more complicated yesterday, when the Ministry of Defense, in Azerbaijan, said that Armenian forces were bombing lands in Goranboy, Tartar and Agdam, inside Azerbaijan "in a crude violation of the humanitarian truce."

This comes on the eve of a visit by the Armenian Foreign Minister to Moscow, the supervisor of the armistice agreement, to hold a meeting with the mediator in the conflict, the Minsk Group, affiliated with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is co-chaired by Russia, France and the United States.

And his Azerbaijani counterpart participated in a similar meeting, last week, in Geneva.

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, when he received his Armenian counterpart yesterday, called for "strict respect by both sides" for the truce.

Despite the continuation of the fighting, he considered that "efforts are in order" and called for establishing a mechanism to verify the implementation of the ceasefire, while the two sides exchange accusations of violating it.

The two sides have so far failed to exchange prisoners and bodies under the armistice agreement.

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