Aliyev threatens war with Armenia via Twitter

Azerbaijan’s president has threatened war with Armenia via Twitter, after dozens were killed in the past days' clashes along the Line of Contact of Nagorno-Karabakh and the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

In a lengthy series of tweets, President Ilham Aliyev said several Azerbaijani lives had been lost in clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, and pledged to restore what he said was his country’s “territorial integrity”, The Guardian reports, citing the posts in the Azerbaijani leader’s microblog.
 

The publication notes that the the border tensions which erupted last week lest left at least 14 people dead.

It further cites Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan’s statement saying that the “whole responsibility for escalation of the situation and human losses is on official Baku, which is the initiator of the tension on the front line”.

Read more on The Guardian website.