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Azerbaijan operation will end if separatists 'lay down arms': President

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, according to a presidency statement Wednesday, AFP reports.

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Aliyev told Blinken "that anti-terrorist measures will be stopped if (Karabakh forces) lay down their arms", according to the 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.

Aliyev told Blinken that "representatives of the Armenian residents living in the Karabakh region of our country were invited to a dialogue several times by the administration of the President of Azerbaijan to discuss reintegration issues, but they refused." "However, they were invited to a dialogue again when local anti-terrorist measures continued," he said, according to a readout of the call.

The fighting so far has killed at least 27 people, including two civilians, the separatists said. Russia said its 2,000-strong peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh was evacuating civilians and providing medical assistance. Aliyev said the civilian population and infrastructure were not being targeted in the operation, and that only "legitimate military targets" had been destroyed.

Blinken said in a statement on Tuesday that the United States was "deeply concerned" by Azerbaijan's military operation and called on it to "cease these actions immediately".

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