The incident comes as Armenia and Azerbaijan resumed talks last Thursday on demarcating their common border, at a time when peace talks between the two states have stalled.
The Armenian government reported that an Armenian soldier was killed today by Azeri army forces, near the border between these two Caucasus countries, whose relations have remained tense for years and have been at war.
“Azerbaijani armed forces opened fire on an Armenian combat position in Barzhruni,” in southwestern Armenia, near the border with the Azerbaijani enclave of Nakhchivan, and an Armenian soldier was “mortally wounded,” the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement. adding that he is conducting an investigation into the incident. According to the ministry, the incident occurred at approximately 14:35 local time (15:35 Greek time).
The incident comes as Armenia and Azerbaijan resumed talks last Thursday on demarcating their common border, at a time when peace talks between the two states have stalled.
Baku and Yerevan have been embroiled in a decades-long territorial conflict over the Azeri region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which Baku recaptured in September after a blitzkrieg against Armenian separatist forces.
Almost the entire Armenian population of the region, more than 100,000 people out of the region’s 120,000 inhabitants, have since fled to Armenia.
Armed incidents, often deadly, occur regularly along the official border between the two countries.
Source :Skai
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