Hikmat Hajiyev: Armenian armed forces continue to attack Azerbaijani cities with missiles and artillery under the pretext of humanitarian truce

“The Armenian armed forces continue to attack Azerbaijani cities with missiles and artillery under the pretext of a humanitarian truce. The missile attacks against Azerbaijan are carried out from the territory of Armenia,” said Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration...

Next meeting held between Presidential Administration and members of Parliament

The Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and members of the parliament continue to hold discussions to further improve relations between the legislative and executive authorities. The next such meeting was held on October 14 in a video conference format.

The statement came from the Press and Public Relations Department of the Azerbaijani Parliament.

Speaker of the parliament Sahiba Gafarova,...

Azerbaijani ombudsman appeals to UNICEF regarding Armenian aggression against children

The Human Rights Commissioner of Azerbaijan, Ms. Sabina Aliyeva appealed to Ms. Afshan Khan, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia (ECA).

In the Appeal it was stated that since 27 September 2020, the Armenian armed forces intensively and indiscriminately shelled densely civilian-populated areas and educational, social, cultural facilities as well as objects of strategic importance using heavy artillery, special missile...

Enemy rockets targeting our residential areas were disabled by the pre-emptive strike of our units

On October 14, at the Military Information Center, Deputy Commander of the Air Force, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Major General Ikram Aliyev at the briefing held for ambassadors of foreign countries, representatives of foreign military attachés accredited in the Republic of Azerbaijan and international organizations (UN, EU, ICRC) in our country today, informed...

Azerbaijani, Russian FMs hold phone talk

On October 14, 2020, a telephone conversation took place between Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov on the initiative of the Azerbaijani side.

Minister Jeyhun Bayramov informed his Russian counterpart of the latest tensions in the region. He brought to the attention of Sergey Lavrov that on October 14 around 1 am and then again around 8 am the armed...

Missile and artillery strikes by Armenian armed forces cause fire in school building and private house

Armenian armed forces continue causing destructions and fires in civilian infrastructure, hitting Azerbaijani dense residential territories, civilian facilities, including private and apartment buildings, and households using heavy artillery installations and rockets.

Thus, the shell strike by the Armenian troops caused fire in a school building in Tartar district. As the result of fire, part of a...

Another civilian killed as a result of Armenian terror

As reported, the Armenian armed forces flagrantly violating the requirements of the humanitarian ceasefire declared on October 10th, 2020 at 12:00, including norms and principles of, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, continue terrorist acts against our civilian population.

On October 14th, early in the morning Tartar District was subjected to rocket attacks and heavy artillery bombardment from various directions.

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