Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating a Russian-brokered ceasefire in the region said to be on the brink of a humanitarian crisis.
Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces have accused each other of launching new attacks in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to start talks on the settlement of the conflict.
Within hours of the first signs of fighting by Armenia and Azerbaijan,the two sides'efforts to shape public opinion went into overdrive.
"We will make it a bloodbath for them":The tiny,war-torn mountain village of Shushi is sacred to both Christian Armenians and Muslim Azeris.
The fighting has killed more than 360 people in two weeks.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's resolute stance on Nagorno-Karabakh is a strategic priority and a costly necessity.
This week's fighting is the biggest escalation in years in the decades-long dispute over the region,which is inside Azerbaijan.
The two sides pounded each other with rockets and artillery in the fiercest round of the decades-old conflict in more than a quarter of a century.
Civilians were also killed and more than 100 servicemen were wounded in what were the heaviest clashes between the two nations since 2016.
Stuart Ayres used the wild weekend weather to defend his government's plan to raise the dam wall,saying the region was spared because the water levels were so low.