Armenia-Azerbaijan Latest - 20 September 2023

Azerbaijan’s operation in Nagorno-Karabakh will end if Armenian separatists “lay down their arms”, president Ilham Aliyev said in a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Mr Aliyev told Mr Blinken “that anti-terrorist measures will be stopped if (Karabakh forces) lay down their arms”, according to a presidency statement released after Tuesday’s call.

Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said its forces had taken control of more than 60 military positions during “localised anti-terrorist measures” in the mountainous breakaway region on Tuesday, which separatists said had been rocked by artillery, aircraft and drones.