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"The violation of ceasefire agreements reached on October 10 and October 17 by Azerbaijan once again demonstrates the latter's inability to respect its own obligations and to resort from its aspirations of solving this conflict through military means, Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said during a phone conversation with Wendy Morton, UK Permanent Secretary for European Affairs and Americas Wendy Morton.

As the press service at the Foreign Ministry reported, Minister Mnatsakanyan expressed deep concern that the behavior of Azerbaijan is blatantly supported and encouraged by Turkey, which in turn is trying to advance its expansionist goals by destabilizing the regional security.

Minister Mnatsakanyan drew his interlocutor's attention to the numerous facts of atrocities committed by the Azerbaijani armed forces against the civilian population, cruelties and murders of prisoners of war appearing under its control, continuous targeting of civilian settlements and vital infrastructure, shelling of religious and cultural monuments.

Permanent Secretary Morton expressed his deepest condolences to the civilian casualties, resulting from the hostilities.

Minister Mnatsakanyan reiterated Armenia's commitment to an exclusively peaceful settlement of the conflict and the establishment of a sustainable ceasefire maintained through verification mechanisms, the source said.