Armenian and Azerbaijan leaders repeatedly accuse their opponents of aggression, refusing to hold dialogue at the call of the international community.

"There will be no dialogue because the requests of the Armenian leader are unacceptable," Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said in a Russian television interview on September 29, adding that the Turkish ally was not.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan yesterday said that "the current atmosphere is not suitable for negotiations" as military operations are still underway in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has entered the fourth day, despite calls for ceasefire from Russia, the US and many countries and international organizations.

The situation escalated on September 29 when both sides accused the enemy of attacking each other's territory, outside of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh area.

The United Nations Security Council on September 29 secretly met and expressed concern about the hostilities, condemned acts of force and supported the call of the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a

Nagorno-Karabakh is located in the southwestern part of Azerbaijan, but the majority of the population of this province are Armenians, who occupy a minority and always seek to secede from Azerbaijan to merge with Armenia.

The Nagorno-Karabakh area.

The dispute over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region broke out into a six-year war between Azerbaijan and Armenia from February 1988 to May 1994.

Fighting continued to erupt between these two neighboring countries last week, when the two sides accused each other of shooting first.