Yerevan, Armenia. Amid fierce fights over Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia has said that  it is ready to have ceasefire talks with Azerbaijan.

The  two forces have been fighting continuously for the last six days. More than 150 servicemen on the Armenian side have been killed so far. Azerbaijani authorities, without disclosing the non-civilian casualties, have said 19 civilians have been killed and 55 more have been wounded.

The Nagorno-Karabakh region lies in Azerbaijan but is under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces. A separatist war was fought in the early 1990s, just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, ending in 1994.

Al Zajeera writes that the chance of break out of a multi-front war is a thing of serious concern as it can invite regional powers Turkey and Russia in the fore, being closer to Azerbaijan and Armenia respectively.

In a joint appeal on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump and Macron urged the two sides to return to negotiations aimed at resolving their long-standing territorial dispute.

Azerbaijan’s president said Armenia’s withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh was the sole condition to end the fighting.

In response, on Friday, the Armenian foreign ministry said in a statement that Armenia “stands ready” to engage with France, Russia and the United States, who co-chair the OSCE group of mediators to the conflict, “to re-establish a ceasefire regime”, However, the statement added that “this aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh will continue to receive our strong and resolute response”.