(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Vugar Khalilov
Units of the Armenian armed forces have shelled Azerbaijani
military positions near the state border in the liberated Kalbajar
District, Azernews reports, citing the Defense Ministry.
During the evening of September 4, units of the Armenian armed
forces, using various calibers of weapons, subjected to fire the
Azerbaijani army positions, located in Kalbajar's Yukhari Ayrim and
Zaylik villages from their military positions in Basarkechar
(Gegharkunik) region's Zarkand village close to the state border,
the Ministry said.
Units of the Azerbaijani army took appropriate retaliatory
measures to suppress the opposite side, the report added.
Armenia periodically shells Azerbaijani military positions on
liberated territories. Since early September, Azerbaijani positions
have multiple times come under Armenian fire. The previous truce
violation was recorded from the afternoon of September 3 to the
morning of September 4 in the directions of Kalbajar and Lachin
districts from Armenia's Basarkechar, Gorus (Goris), and Garakilsa
(Sisian) regions on the state border.
Earlier, Ilham Aliyev stated that peace will return to the
Caucasus based on the five principles Baku recently proposed for
normalizing relations with Armenia.
To recap, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime
Minister Nikol Pashinyan met for the fourth time in Brussels on
August 31 under the auspices of EU Council President Charles Michel
to look into ways of expediting preparations for drafting a peace
deal.
After the meeting, Michel said that Azerbaijan and Armenia
decided to accelerate substantive work on the peace treaty
governing inter-state ties between the two countries and tasked the
Foreign Ministers to meet within one month to work on a draft
text.
The parties also thoroughly discussed humanitarian matters like
demining, detainees, and the fate of missing people.
The leaders assessed progress on all issues relating to border
delimitation and how to best guarantee a stable situation and
agreed that the next Border Commissions meeting to be held in
Brussels in November.
The parties discussed the status of negotiations on the
mechanisms for unblocking transportation lines.
Michel emphasized the need of bringing the populations on both
sides along and preparing them for long-term sustainable peace.
“Public messaging is critical in this regard – in a sensitive
situation as every word spoken in public is obviously listened to
by the other side and weighed,” he said.
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