The Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense published that Armenian forces opened fire from light weapons this morning from the Goris area. Did not give more details. The Armenian Ministry of Defense announced that the statement from Azerbaijan is untrue.
Baku and Yerevan announced on Thursday that they agreed on the text of the Peace Agreement for the completion of almost four decades of the conflict between the countries of the southern Caucasus, a sudden displacement in a dotted and often bitter peace process.
The time frame for the signing of the agreement is uncertain because Azerbaijan said that the prerequisite for that is the change in the Constitution of Armenia.
Armenia denies such claims, but the Prime Minister Nikol Pašinjan in recent months has said that the basic document of the country should be amended and invited to a referendum to make it happen. The date is not yet determined.
Two post-sovial states led a series of wars from the late 1980s when the Nagorno-Karabah, the Azerbaijan region, which at the time had a majority ethnic Armenian population, separated from Azerbaijan with the support of Armenia.
The outbreaks of hostilities in the late 1980s have encouraged mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Azera from Armenia and Armenians, mostly Christians, from Azerbaijan. Peace negotiations began after the Azerbaijan returned Nagorno-Karabak in September 2023, which made almost all 100,000 armeners from that area to escape to Armenia.
Both sides emphasized that they want to sign an agreement on the end of the long-term conflict, but progress was slow, and relations are tense. Their common border of 1000 kilometers long is closed and strongly militarized.
(Vijesti.ba / Hina)
