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The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) published a review of armed conflicts for 2016 and devoted one of the chapters to the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. The article in particular describes the diplomatic efforts of 2015 to resolve the Karabakh conflict as active, but mostly ineffective against the background of the escalating violence and militant rhetoric of both sides.

Although the security in the conflict zone has clearly deteriorated, the political positions of Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the dynamics of their interaction have not changed. "The countries began once again to accuse each other of spreading disinformation, making it difficult for outside observers to analyse the scope of violent incidents and their impact on civilians," says the article. In addition, as authors of the report emphasize, several disturbing trends have been observed. In particular, the parties of the conflict have become more reliant on heavy weapons, and there took place incidents in areas near the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

According to the article the parties made controversy statements about several large-scale battles.The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced that  about 20 Karabakhi soldiers were killed after they had attacked the Azerbaijani Forces at the line of contact. At the same time, the Karabakh Defense Ministry announced that it was Azerbaijani Forces who had attacked their units. “According to the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, three Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers had been killed and four others wounded, while between seven and 14 Azerbaijani soldiers had been killed. Shortly afterwards, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense claimed that its Armenian counterpart had covered up the deaths of five Nagorno-Karabakh fighters in a separate incident. In response, the spokesperson for the Armenian Ministry of Defence said that both it and the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army were fully transparent, and called on Armenian media outlets to refrain from repeating ‘anti-Armenian propaganda,’” writes the article. 


 

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