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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Thursday added Azerbaijan to a watchlist on religious freedom, following fears for Christian heritage after the country seized back an ethnic Armenian enclave. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, releasing an annual index of designations, maintained all 12 countries that had been on the previous year's blacklist, including China, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In the sole change, Blinken added Azerbaijan to a watchlist, meaning it will join the blacklist, which carries potential sanctions, without improvements. Energy-rich Azerbaijan, a frequent US part...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN Security Council on Tuesday scheduled an urgent meeting as France and the United States led efforts to stop a military operation by Azerbaijan in the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Separatists said that Azerbaijan pounded the mountainous territory with artillery, jets and drones on Tuesday -- one day after aid was allowed in through the sole road link from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. France called for the Security Council to meet on the crisis, which comes as leaders gather in New York for the annual General Assembly. Albania, which ...
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Baku (AFP) - Azerbaijan on Tuesday launched a military operation against the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, warning it would "continue until the end" in the territory, over which it has fought two wars with neighbouring Armenia. The latest flare-up in violence came as Russia, the traditional power broker in the region, was bogged down in a conflict in Ukraine. Fears of a fresh war in the volatile Caucasus region have been growing recently, with Armenia accusing Azerbaijan of a troop build-up around the disputed Armenian-majority territory. Separatists said Azerbaijan on Tuesday pounded ...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States hosted negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday, seeking to quell recent tension over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The two sides have gone to war twice, in 1990 and 2020, leaving tens of thousands dead, and clashes regularly erupt over the territory, an Armenian-majority region inside Azerbaijan. Tensions have spiked again this week after Azerbaijan announced it had set up a checkpoint on the Lachin Corridor, the only land link between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, sparking an angry response from Yerevan. Armenia views the move as ...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Azerbaijan's leader to reopen a key corridor linking Armenia with the flashpoint enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, warning that a blockade could reignite conflict with Yerevan. Blinken spoke by telephone with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev "to urge an immediate reopening of the Lachin corridor to commercial traffic," State Department spokesman Ned Price said. "He underscored that the risk of a humanitarian crisis in the Lachin corridor undermined prospects for peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan," Price said in a statement...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan used his address before the United Nations Thursday to accuse Azerbaijan of "unspeakable atrocities" during the latest clashes between the two rivals, including mutilating the bodies of dead soldiers. Fighting flared up last week between the Caucasus countries, leaving nearly 300 dead in the worst violence since a war in 2020. "There are evidences of cases of torture, mutilation of captured or already dead servicemen, numerous instances of extra-judicial killings and ill treatment of Armenian prisoners of war, as ...
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Yerevan (AFP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday condemned what she described as an "illegal" attack by Azerbaijan on Armenia that sparked the worst fighting since their 2020 war. Baku and Yerevan have accused each other of starting Tuesday's border clashes, which claimed the lives of more than 200 people. "We strongly condemn those attacks -- on behalf of Congress -- which threaten (the) prospects of the much-needed peace agreement," Pelosi told journalists in Yerevan. "Armenia has particular importance to us because of the focus on security following an illegal and deadly attack by Az...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Friday urged Azerbaijan to pull back forces "immediately" after complaints by Armenia sparked fears of a new flare-up after last year's six-week war. Azerbaijan has denied Armenia's charges of infiltration and said that it was solely moving border troops within areas under its control. The United States pointed to reports that Azerbaijan was pulling back and urged it to do so. "Military movements in disputed territories are irresponsible and they are also unnecessarily provocative," said a State Department spokeswoman, Jalina Porter. "We expect Azerbaij...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - No sooner had the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated last month than the huge Armenian community in Los Angeles began mobilizing to send food, medical equipment and other supplies to the "homeland.""The second it started, we were like 'what are we going to do?' and we started working immediately," said Sosse Krikorian, who spoke with AFP this week near Los Angeles as she sorted aid destined for the tiny enclave at the heart of the fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia.The territory -- referred to as the Republic of Artsakh by Armenians -- is recognized as part of Azer...
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