WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday and called on him to immediately end military operations in the Upper -Karabakh, the State Department said in a statement.
Azerbaijan launched military operations described as “anti-terrorist” on Tuesday in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, populated mainly by Armenians.
(Report by Eric Beech; French version by Camille Raynaud)
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