And the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said in a statement that “an Azerbaijani army soldier was killed following a provocation by the Armenian forces”, accusing Armenia of firing “with heavy weapons ” on Azerbaijani positions on the border.
For its part, Yerevan indicated that 4 Armenian soldiers were injured in these clashes.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement this morning that “Azerbaijani forces are firing artillery and mortar shells at Armenian positions in the Sotak region” in eastern Armenia.
It comes as attempts are made to ease tensions between the two neighbors and relaunch peace talks.
In this context, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are expected to meet on Sunday in Brussels, according to the European Union, which will sponsor the meeting.
This meeting comes after intense discussions which lasted 4 days in early May in Washington between two delegations from the two countries.
On Thursday, Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan of seeking to “torpedo the talks” in Brussels, stressing at the same time that he was always ready to go there.
He declared in an intervention before the Armenian government: “I have not changed my decision to go to Brussels”, but he estimated that there are “very low” chances of signing a peace agreement with the Armenian government. Azerbaijan during this meeting.
The Armenian Prime Minister added that the draft peace agreement “is still at a preliminary stage and it is too early to talk about a possible signing”.
Armenia and Azerbaijan, the two former Soviet republics in the Caucasus, fought two wars, the first in the early 1990s and the second in 2020, in an attempt to control the Nagorno-Karabakh region, inhabited by a majority Armenian and unilaterally separated from Azerbaijan three decades ago.
After a blitzkrieg in the fall of 2020, Baku seized land in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Baku and Yerevan signed a Moscow-brokered ceasefire.
Since then, Russian soldiers have been deployed to monitor compliance with the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, but Armenia has complained for months about their ineffectiveness.
Tensions flared when Baku announced on April 23 that it had set up the first checkpoint at the entrance to the Lachin corridor, the only land link between Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh region, besieged for several months, causing a shortage. goods and electricity. A step Armenia saw as a violation of the recent ceasefire between the two sides.
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