Armenia announced the death of its soldier on the border with the Republic of Azerbaijan

According to the international group of Fars news agency, while Yerevan and Baku have recently been engaged in border demarcation negotiations in line with the signing of a peace agreement, Armenia announced today, Monday, a The military of this country was killed by the forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan near the common border.

According to the AFP report, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia announced on social networks that “the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan are moving towards the combat positions of Armenia in Bardzroni, Vayuts-Dzor Province They opened fire.” According to Yerevan, one soldier died from his injuries.

The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in an interview with the Trend news agency, announced the published information about the artillery attacks on the positions of the Armenian forces and the death of a health soldier. and added, “We categorically deny the provocative information of the other party”. As part of broader peace treaty talks, they met for the fifth time to delimit their borders. Observers and political experts reported the lack of progress in this round of negotiations.

Two neighboring republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for three decades. have been. The two countries do not have diplomatic relations and their common border is extremely strong.

In September, the Republic of Azerbaijan launched a lightning operation to take back this region, which internationally recognized as belonging to Baku. It can be done, but since the 1990s, it was controlled by Armenians under the protection of Armenia. This operation led to mass exodus of almost 120,000 Armenians from Karabakh to Armenia. The two countries have since expressed their desire to sign a peace agreement, although no tangible progress has yet been made. are committed, the peace agreement document will be signed soon.

Pashinyan emphasized that the first principle is the mutual recognition of territorial integrity; The second principle is that the parties agreed to delimit the border based on the Almaty Declaration; This means that the administrative borders of the Soviet republics are now the state borders of the countries and therefore their immunity should be recognized. He mentioned the opening of regional communication based on the principle of equality and reciprocity as the third principle.

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