The Armenian government on Monday accused the Azerbaijani Army of firing on «fighting positions» in the border area, an event that has ended without casualties, following the ceasefire reached on September 15 after their latest clashes.
The Armenian Defense Ministry has stressed in a statement published on its website that «on the night of November 6-7, units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have opened fire with weapons of different caliber on Armenian fighting positions in the eastern part of the border».
«There are no casualties on the Armenian side. As of 8 a.m. (local time), the situation in the border area is relatively stable,» he said, without the authorities in Baku making any statement at the moment about what happened. During the last weeks both countries have crossed accusations about incidents on the border.
Hours later, the spokesman of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Vahan Hunanián, indicated on his account on the social network Twitter that during the day a meeting will be held in Washington between the Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers, Ararat Mizoián and Jeyhun Bayramov, respectively.
«At the initiative of the United States, a trilateral meeting between Armenian Foreign Minister, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Azeri Foreign Minister will take place this November 7 in Washington,» he said.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement that Bayramov began an official visit to the United States on Sunday and said that «within the framework of the visit a meeting with the Armenian foreign minister is planned at the initiative and with the participation of Blinken.»
For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has again called on both countries to «avoid actions and steps that could lead to an increase in tensions on the line of contact», as reported by the Russian news agency Interfax.
Thus, he recalled that after their trilateral meeting in Sochi, Baku and Yerevan «showed their intention to seek an agreement only through peaceful, political and diplomatic measures and means».
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire on September 15 and in early October agreed to commit to the UN Charter and the 1991 Alma Ata Declaration, through which both countries recognize each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Following this, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian stressed before Parliament that he expects the peace treaty with Azerbaijan to be signed before the end of the year.
Both countries have been involved in several clashes in recent years over the control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory with a majority Armenian population which has been the focus of conflict since it decided to separate in 1988 from the region of Azerbaijan integrated into the Soviet Union.
