Geneva (AFP) -The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia met on Saturday in Bern for discussions on the conflict between the two countries over the fate of the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has hardened the last month.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev had met for the last time in 2014 in Paris, without getting progress on the resolution of this conflict that has lasted since the early 1990s has seen an unprecedented escalation in recent months, to the point that the situation became untenable, according to the Organization for Security and mediators Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Saturday’s game has hardly led to progress, according to Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.

Both sides presented their vision of the different aspects of conflict resolution. Unfortunately, the positions do not coincide, the minister said in comments broadcast on Armenian television.

Nalbandian, who took part in the talks after a head-to-head two presidents, said that the meeting had been influenced by the escalation of the situation, the Azerbaijani provocations, gross violations of ceasefire -fire.

It is essential that discussions continue and there is no alternative to dialogue. The more meetings of this kind, the more likely we are to lower tensions in the area and to advance towards a settlement of the conflict, had previously said the Armenian minister.

“Their head-to-head meeting gave them the opportunity to clarify their respective positions”, however said the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Armenia and Azerbaijan, both former Soviet republics of the South Caucasus in conflict since the late 1980s about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Mostly populated by Armenians but attached to Azerbaijan in Soviet times, this territory was the scene of a war that claimed 30,000 dead and hundreds of thousands of refugees between 1988 and 1994.

Despite several years of negotiations and the signing of a cease-fire, no peace treaty has been signed. The clashes are multiplying for months, Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of triggering attacks that caused dozens of deaths.

Saturday, the Defense Ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh said that Azerbaijani soldiers had killed an Armenian soldier after crossing the border of the territory. For its part, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced Friday that at least four Azerbaijani soldiers were killed this month in clashes with the Armenians.