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At that time, the Defense Ministry in Baku informed the Interfax news agency that tensions on the border between the two countries had risen again at night: the Armenian armed forces had reportedly resumed firing on Azerbaijani positions.
Earlier on Sunday, Baku and Yerevan accused each other of violating the ceasefire regime and using artillery.
According to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, Armenian soldiers in the Tovuz border area shot down Azerbaijani positions from artillery guns.
Š. Stepanian, for his part, assured Interfax that on Sunday afternoon, Azerbaijani soldiers initially attempted to cross the border in a UAZ car and then, using artillery fire, attempted to occupy one of the support points. According to the official, his country’s army suffered no loss.
According to Baku, the number of Azerbaijani soldiers killed in the confrontation has increased to three.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been embroiled in a territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh for several decades. The Armenian-majority region, with the help of Yerevan, separated from Azerbaijan during the 1991-1994 war.
However, Sunday’s clashes took place far from Nagorno-Karabakh and directly between the two Caucasus states.
Since the declaration of the fragile ceasefire in 1994, peace talks have been held between Baku and Yerevan, mediated by diplomats from the so-called Minsk Group (France, Russia and the United States).
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev recently raised fears of a new war with Armenia, declared that his country had the right to use force and condemned stalled peace talks in the disputed region.
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