Azerbaijan says 重要な Karabakh town 逮捕（する）d, Armenia 否定するs
Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh has 焦点（を合わせる）d on the area around Shusha in 最近の days
Azerbaijan said Sunday its 軍隊s had 逮捕（する）d the 重要な town of Shusha from Armenian 分離主義者s in Nagorno-Karabakh, but Armenia 主張するd that fighting for the strategically 決定的な area was 現在進行中の.
The 逮捕（する） of Shusha would be a major victory for Azerbaijan six weeks after new fighting 爆発するd over Nagorno-Karabakh, an 民族の Armenian 飛び領土 that broke away from Azerbaijan's 支配（する）／統制する in the 1990s.
The 要塞 town sits on cliffs around 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Nagorno-Karabakh's largest city Stepanakert and on the main road through the 地域 to the 領土 of Armenia, which 支援するs the 分離主義者s.
Both 味方するs have 報告（する）／憶測d 猛烈な／残忍な 衝突／不一致s around the town in 最近の days, after Azerbaijani 軍隊s swept across the southern 側面に位置する of Nagorno-Karabakh and 押し進めるd through its mountain passes.
衝突 in 論争d Nagorno-Karabakh
In a テレビ放送するd 演説（する）／住所 to the nation on Sunday, Azerbaijani 大統領 Ilham Aliyev 発表するd that the town had been 逮捕（する）d.
"With 広大な／多数の／重要な pride and joy, I 知らせる you that the town of Shusha has been 解放するd," said Aliyev, dressed in 軍の 疲労，（軍の）雑役s and standing in 前線 of an Azerbaijani 旗.
He said November 8 would "go 負かす／撃墜する in the history of the Azerbaijani people" as the day "we returned to Shusha".
"Our 解放 march continues. We will go to the end, until the 完全にする 解放 of the 占領するd 領土s," Aliyev said.
- 祝賀s in Baku -
旗-waving Azerbaijanis celebrated in the 資本／首都 Baku after Aliyev's 告示, with cars honking their horns as 居住（者）s （人が）群がるd along city streets.
Armenian 公式の／役人s 確認するd there were 激しい 衝突／不一致s for the town but said the 戦う／戦い was far from over.
More than 1,000 people have been 確認するd dead in the 最近の 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of fighting
"The fighting continues in Shushi, wait and believe in our army," Armenian defence 省 公式の／役人 Artsrun Hovhannisyan said, using the Armenian 指名する for the town, すぐに after Aliyev's 告示.
Armenian defence 省 spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said there was "the most ferocious 戦闘" 夜通し for the town, while the Armenian 政府 said taking Shusha was an "unattainable 麻薬を吸う dream for Azerbaijan".
"にもかかわらず 激しい 破壊, the 要塞 city withstands the blows of the adversary," it said.
In the streets of the Armenian 資本／首都 Yerevan, 居住（者）s said they did not believe the town had been taken.
"To know who 支配（する）／統制するs Shushi we will listen to the 指揮官s of our army, not Aliyev," 50-year-old Arman told AFP on the city's central Abovyan Street.
"In any 事例／患者 I can 保証する you that the war will not be finished if the Azerbaijanis take Shushi."
Shusha could 持つ／拘留する the 重要な to Azerbaijan's 企て，努力，提案 to 奪い返す Nagorno-Karabakh
Shusha had been a 大多数 Azerbaijani city before the 1990s 衝突 and has been a 決起大会／結集させるing cry for 当局 in Baku 約束ing to 奪い返す Nagorno-Karabakh.
New 衝突／不一致s broke out in late September between Azerbaijan and the Armenia-支援するd 分離主義者s over 支配（する）／統制する of Karabakh, which 宣言するd its independence nearly 30 years ago.
That 宣言 has not been recognised 国祭的な, even by Armenia, and it remains a part of Azerbaijan under international 法律.
The 最近の ゆらめく-up has been the worst in １０年間s, with more than 1,000 people 確認するd dead 含むing dozens of 非軍事のs, although the death （死傷者）数 is believed to be much higher.
- 外交の 成果／努力s -
Fighting has continued にもかかわらず several 試みる／企てるs by Russia, フラン and the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs to help reach a 継続している 停戦.
The three countries （不足などを）補う the "Minsk Group" of 調停者s that helped 仲買人 a 一時休戦 between the ex-Soviet 競争相手s in 1994 but have failed to find a 継続している 解答 to the long-simmering 衝突.
外交の 成果／努力s appeared to 強める as the fighting 激怒（する）d around Shusha, with ロシアの 大統領 Vladimir Putin on Saturday speaking by phone to Turkish 相当するもの Recep Tayyip Erdogan and French 大統領 Emmanuel Macron.
Turkey is a 重要な 同盟（する） of Azerbaijan and on Sunday Erdogan congratulated Baku after its （人命などを）奪う，主張する of 奪い返すing Shusha, 説 it was "a 調印する that the 解放 of the 残り／休憩（する） of the 占領するd 領土s is 近づく".
Turkish 関与 would be 重要な in any 協定 to 停止（させる） the fighting and there were 報告（する）／憶測s Sunday of a 計画（する） to （軍隊を）展開する，配備する ロシアの and Turkish （国連の）平和維持軍s to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ankara has been a 猛烈な／残忍な 支持者 of Azerbaijan, a fellow イスラム教徒 and Turkic country, while Moscow has a defence 協定／条約 with Armenia and a 軍の base on its 領土.
Aliyev's office said Sunday he was 会合 with the Turkish foreign and defence 大臣s in Baku.
