UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. Security Council called on Armenia and Azerbaijan Tuesday to immediately halt fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and urgently resume talks without preconditions.
The U.N.s most powerful body strongly condemned the use of force and backed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier call to immediately stop fighting, deescalate tensions and return to meaningful negotiations without delay.
The two neighbors have been locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan that has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a war there ended in 1994. International efforts to settle the conflict have stalled, and clashes have been frequent.
The council expressed full support for the central role of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has been trying to mediate peace talks, and…