Armenia Azerbaijan has threatened “serious consequences” after two of its soldiers were killed on its border with the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan.
According to the Armenian army, Andranik Yeghoyan, 26, and Boris Gasparian, 22, were killed Thursday by a sniper in the army of Azerbaijan located about 70 km southeast of Yerevan.
“For several days, the enemy has created tension by misinformation and various political provocations on the border of Nakhichevan”, said Friday Artsrun Hovannisian, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defence. “We lost two soldiers in the wake of yesterday’s shooting. The enemy was then mastered. “
There was no official reaction to the time of the Azerbaijani side.
Violations of the cease-fire on the border between Armenia and Nakhichevan were very rare, unlike other sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border long and “line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh. Yet there armed incidents appear to have increased somewhat since last year. Azerbaijani soldier serving in Nakhchivan was killed Monday.
The fatal shooting that killed two Armenian military prompted the Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian hold an emergency meeting in Yerevan with Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Head of the OSCE after the ceasefire regime fire in the zone of the Karabakh conflict.
According Hovannisian, Ohanian asked Kasprzyk help ease tensions on the front lines. The Minister warned that “the situation has serious consequences for Azerbaijan,” said Hovannisian.
The incidents led Armenia to accuse Baku of torpedoing the latest international efforts in Karabakh peace process. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Shavarsh Kocharian said Ilham Aliyev specifically tried to scuttle a new meeting with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan, wanted by U.S. mediators, Russian and French meeting.
“The mediators intend to try to end this impasse,” said Kocharian. “This is in contrast with the actions of Azerbaijan. “” They do everything to prevent a step in the negotiation process, “he has said.
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