The announcement by Armenia’s Defense Ministry came three days after four Armenian servicemen were killed in an offensive operation launched by Azerbaijan on September 25.
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Energy-rich Azerbaijan, whose military spending exceeds Armenia’s entire state budget, has threatened to take back the breakaway region by force if negotiations fail to yield results.
Armenia, an ally of Russian Federation, says it would not stand by if Nagorno-Karabakh were attacked.
A shaky ceasefire has been in place since then, but it is regularly broken by shelling – leaving hundreds of thousands of war refugees still displaced in both republics.
He also recalled that the OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chairs organized a meeting with foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia.
On Friday, one Azerbaijani and four Armenian soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire. However, no breakthrough was reported.
Azerbaijan did not comment on the incident, but earlier on Thursday had said Armenian forces had fired on Azerbaijan.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan echoed that language in a statement on Saturday. Musabekov wondered.
The move triggered an armed conflict, which lasted until May 12, 1994 and led to Azerbaijan losing all control over Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent districts. “It is hard to believe in a new meeting without this”, Rasim Musabekov noted. 1997) of the Artsakh Armed Forces were killed in the Azerbaijani attack. “The recent clashes are not caused by military logic or combat missions, but directly connected with the diplomatic calendar”. Armenia has agreed to discuss the details of the mechanism, and we urged Azerbaijan to do the same.
Kirakosyan also saw the willingness of Baku to recall the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the latest developments.
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Despite years of negotiations, the two countries have not signed a final peace deal to cement a tenuous ceasefire.
