The World Peace Council has called for an immediate ceasefire following a second day of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
And Iranian peace campaigners said that Turkey had reportedly
transferred jihadists from Syria to fight for Azerbaijan in the
conflict, echoing its intervention in the Libyan civil war.
The council said that peace campaigners in both countries needed to
mobilise to counter “war hysteria” over the disputed region of
Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory recognised internationally as part of
Azerbaijan but self-governed as the Armenian-majority Republic of
Artsakh since the early 1990s.
Dozens have been reported killed and wounded since clashes broke out
at the weekend, with Armenia and Azerbaijan disputing each others’
claims.
Association for Defence of Peace, Solidarity & Democracy-Iran
convener Payam Solhtalab condemned Turkey’s intervention in the conflict
in support of Azerbaijan.
“Turkey, a member of Nato, has territorial ambitions in the region
which would be detrimental to regional stability and world peace,” he
said, expressing “concern” at Turkey’s reported deployment of jihadists
it had sponsored in the war to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad government
in Syria. Turkey has vocally backed Azerbaijan since fighting broke out,
while Russia, which has close ties to Armenia, says it is seeking to
defuse tensions.
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Turkey accused of deploying jihadists from Syria to Azerbaijan as World Peace Council calls for immediate ceasefire | Morning Star
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9/29/20
Azerbajan: The demise of diplomacy: Azerbaijan’s military offensive - by Richard Giragosian
For the past several years, the outlook for diplomacy in Russia’s
self-proclaimed “near abroad” or sphere of influence has been
particularly daunting. Ranging from Russia’s invasion of Georgia in
2008 to its annexation of Crimea in 2014 and continuing aggression in
eastern Ukraine,
Western diplomacy has been largely stalled and stalemated. More recently, it was Belarus that emerged as the obvious focal point for European engagement and diplomatic efforts, with a new challenge for security and stability along the EU’s “eastern neighborhood.”
But with a sudden and sweeping military offensive by Azerbaijan early on Sunday morning, the unresolved Nagorno Karabakh conflict has now surfaced as the more pressing and most urgent crisis for European diplomacy.
Read more:
The demise of diplomacy: Azerbaijan’s military offensive | New Europe
Western diplomacy has been largely stalled and stalemated. More recently, it was Belarus that emerged as the obvious focal point for European engagement and diplomatic efforts, with a new challenge for security and stability along the EU’s “eastern neighborhood.”
But with a sudden and sweeping military offensive by Azerbaijan early on Sunday morning, the unresolved Nagorno Karabakh conflict has now surfaced as the more pressing and most urgent crisis for European diplomacy.
Read more:
The demise of diplomacy: Azerbaijan’s military offensive | New Europe
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