Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan urged both Armenian and Azeri sides to immediate cessation of hostilities and exercising constraint in coming to a common ground where differences should be settled through peaceful negotiations.
The decades-long hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh border region between two former Soviet republics took a violent turn in recent days when both sides opened fire to the other sides of the border. Since the war of 1992, Armenia and Azerbaijan Republics had been in a neither war nor peace situation and the conflict had been going on into the second decade of the 21st century.
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