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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 30 september 2020

Azerbaijan and Armenia brush off suggestion of peace talks

By AVET DEMOURIAN about the size of the U.S.
Associated Press state of Delaware, is 50 ki-
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — lometers (30 miles) from the
Leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenian border. Soldiers
Armenia brushed off the backed by Armenia also
suggestion of peace talks occupy some Azerbaijani
Tuesday, accusing each territory outside the region.
other of obstructing nego- Armenia also alleged that
tiations over the separatist Turkey, which supports
territory of Nagorno-Kara- Azerbaijan, was involved.
bakh, with dozens killed “Turkey, according to our
and injured in three days of information, looks for an ex-
heavy fighting. cuse for a broader involve-
In the latest incident, Ar- ment in this conflict,” Pash-
menia said one of its war- inyan said.
planes was shot down by a The Armenian military said
fighter jet from Azerbaijan’s an SU-25 from its air force
ally Turkey, killing the pilot, was shot down in Armenian
in what would be a major airspace by a Turkish F-16
escalation of the violence. fighter jet that took off from
Both Turkey and Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, and the pilot
denied it. The international was killed.
community is calling for The allegation of downing
talks to end the decades- the jet was “absolutely un-
old conflict between the An Armenian serviceman fires a cannon towards Azerbaijan positions in the self-proclaimed true,” said Fahrettin Altun,
two former Soviet republics Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. communications direc-
in the Caucasus Mountains Associated Press tor for Turkey’s president.
region following a flareup In this case, what kind of of negotiations that has ex- the Armenian people, and Azerbaijani officials called
of violence this week. It negotiating process can isted for 20 years.” our people are now simply it “another fantasy of the
centers on Nagorno-Kara- we talk about?” Aliev said. Pashinyan, in turn, told the forced to use the right for Armenian military propa-
bakh, a region that lies He added that according broadcaster that “it is very self-defense.” ganda machine.”
within Azerbaijan but has to principles brokered by hard to talk about nego- Since Sunday, the Nago- Turkish President Recep
been under the control of the Minsk group, which was tiations ... when specific rno-Karabakh Defense Min- Tayyip Erdogan urged Ar-
ethnic Armenian forces set up in 1992 to resolve the military operations are un- istry reported 84 service- menia to withdraw imme-
backed by the Armenian conflict, “territories around derway.” He said there is men were killed. Aliyev said diately from the separatist
government since 1994 at the former Nagorno-Kara- no military solution to the 11 civilians were killed on region, and Turkish Foreign
the end of a separatist war. bakh autonomous region conflict and called for a its side, although he didn’t Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
Azerbaijani President should be transferred to compromise. detail the country’s military said Turkey is “by Azerbai-
Ilkham Aliyev told Russian Azerbaijan.” But first, Azerbaijan must casualties. jan’s side on the field and
state TV channel Rossia 1 Aliev noted that if Armenian “immediately end (its) ag- Both countries accused at the (negotiating) table.”
that Baku is committed to Prime Minister Nikol Pash- gression towards Nagorno- each other of firing into Armenian officials said that
negotiating a resolution but inyan says “that Karabakh Karabakh and Armenia,” their territory outside of the Turkey, a NATO member, is
that Armenia is obstructing is Armenia and that we Pashinyan said. “We all Nagorno-Karabakh area supplying Azerbaijan with
the process. “The Arme- should negotiate with the perceive this as an existen- on Tuesday. fighters recruited in Syria
nian prime minister publicly so-called puppet regime of tial threat to our nation, we The separatist region of and weapons, including
declares that Karabakh is Nagorno-Karabakh, (he is) basically perceive it as a about 4,400 square kilome- F-16 fighter jets. Both Azer-
(part of) Armenia, period. trying to break the format war that was declared to ters (1,700 square miles), or baijan and Turkey deny it.q

Greece moves asylum-seekers to ease crowding at island camps

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — been accepted will con- from Turkey that resulted
Greek authorities moved tinue over coming weeks from stronger policing of
nearly 1,000 refugees from and months, the country's the sea border. The gov-
eastern Aegean islands to Migration Ministry said Tues- ernment has also voiced
the mainland Tuesday as day. hopes that all the migrants
part of efforts to improve Just over 26,000 refugees currently on the islands will
conditions in overcrowded and migrants live in camps have been moved to the
island refugee camps. on islands, where they ar- mainland within six months.
Most of the 946 people on a rived after crossing from On Tuesday, officials said
ferry that docked at Lavrio, the nearby Turkish coast all unaccompanied teen-
near Athens, had been at in smuggling boats. More agers and children living in
a temporary facility hastily than half are on Lesbos. camps on the islands or on
built on the island of Lesbos Greek officials have Greece's land border with
to replace a camp that pledged to drastically re- Turkey had been moved
was burned down by angry duce the islands' migrant to appropriate facilities on Refugees and migrants wearing protective masks to help curb
residents three weeks ago. populations by moving the mainland. After arriv- the spread of coronavirus wait to board buses after their arrival
Others came from camps people who have been ing at Lavrio, the migrants at the port of Lavrio, about 75 kilometers (48miles) south of
on Kos, Samos, Chios and granted refugee status to were taken in buses to ho- Athens, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020.
Leros. The transfer from the mainland accommoda- tels where they are expect- Associated Press
Greek islands of people tions, taking advantage ed to stay for the next two ple have entered Greece considerably fewer than in
whose asylum bids have of a drastic drop in arrivals months. Nearly 13,000 peo- illegally so far this year, 2019.q