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At least four Azeri troops have died in two days of tank and artillery clashes on the Azerbaijani border with Armenia.
A conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh remains unresolved, but the last fighting took place in Tavush, an area north of that territory.
The Azerbaijani army reported all four deaths, but said it had destroyed an Armenian fortification and artillery.
Armenia has not reported any deaths on its part in the fighting.
The two former Soviet republics in the Caucasus fought a bitter war in the 1990s, when Armenia backed most ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, an internationally recognized territory as part of Azerbaijan.
In an emergency meeting on Monday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said: “The Armenian political and military leadership will have full responsibility for the provocation.”
Armenia, however, accused its neighbor of “using artillery in an attack aimed at capturing (Armenian) positions.”
“They were rejected and suffered personnel losses. There were no casualties among the Armenian military,” Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
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Azeri artillery: years of diplomacy have failed to ease tensions
On July 6, President Aliyev said peace talks with Armenia to resolve the old Nagorno-Karabakh conflict had stalled.
He called the recent talks between the foreign ministers of the “useless” countries.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has long been trying to mediate a solution to the conflict, which dates back to the 1990s.
The OSCE Minsk Group, diplomats from France, Russia and the United States, is trying to build on a fragile ceasefire agreed in 1994.
