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.
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.
