The tension on the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops undermines the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, US co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick tweeted. “Renewed violence in Nagorno-Karabakh is tragic and violates the ceasefire,” he wrote.…
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