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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Azerbaijan announces 'anti-terrorist operation'
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9/19/2023
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We'll start first with this developing story out of Azerbaijan.
00:03
The defence ministry there says it has started "local anti-terrorist activities" in the
00:08
breakaway ethnic Armenian populated Nagorno-Karabakh region.
00:12
Witness reports say blasts have already been heard in the Armenian separatist stronghold
00:17
of Stenpanakert.
00:19
Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but largely populated
00:24
by ethnic Armenians.
00:26
For the latest on this, let's bring in regional correspondent Regis Jente in Tbilisi.
00:30
Regis, what more can you tell us?
00:33
We have very little information at the moment, but what we can see on the videos, for example,
00:38
which were leaked on the social networks this morning, we can hear in Stenpanakert, the
00:43
capital of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, some automatic shots within the city, but
00:51
also obviously some blasts from heavy weapons.
00:56
So this is what happened in Stenpanakert, the capital of the breakaway region.
01:03
Some witnesses, some people in the republic says also that finally the attack is going
01:09
on everywhere on the contact line between Azerbaijan and its region of Nagorno-Karabakh,
01:15
but this is not confirmed at the moment.
01:18
Regis, give us a bit more context on this conflict.
01:22
Had there been rising tensions before this latest movement?
01:26
Yes, the context is extremely important to understand what's going on.
01:30
Indeed, the very last week were extremely tense and we can say that what happened this
01:36
morning in the Karabakh is not a big surprise after all.
01:39
But the context is the one which was born after the war, the second war of the Karabakh
01:46
by the end of 2020.
01:49
Azerbaijan won this war, managed to get the control of what it lost three decades earlier,
01:54
the Nagorno-Karabakh and the district around it.
01:57
But finally, after a negotiation of the Russian president Vladimir Putin, it didn't take
02:03
the Nagorno-Karabakh as such because it was populated with Armenian population and so
02:09
on.
02:10
But what we observe since now almost three years is that Azerbaijan is trying to put
02:15
the pressure on the Armenian side to get what it could not get after the negotiation and
02:21
the discussion with the Russian president.
02:23
The full control of what it considers its territory.
02:26
And this is the result of this pressure.
02:28
And we could observe that almost since three years with some threats on the international
02:34
borders between Azerbaijan and Armenia and on Nagorno-Karabakh as such.
02:39
Regis, thank you for that.
02:40
Regis Jante, there reporting from Tbilisi.
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