Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned today, Tuesday, of a "high possibility of escalation" at the border with Azerbaijan and in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
"Today, there is a very high possibility of an escalation along the Armenian border and in Nagorno-Karabakh (...) Day after day, Azerbaijan's rhetoric is becoming more hostile," Pashinyan said in a press conference, in the context of repeated border clashes since the war between Yerevan and Baku in 2020.
For its part, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense said that the army's border posts had been subjected to sporadic fire 19 times since last night by the Armenian forces.
It added that its forces took appropriate response measures in response to the targeting of their positions by Armenia.
And the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, Zakir Hasanov, called last Saturday for taking proactive measures against any possible threats from Armenia within the Azerbaijani lands, and to respond in kind if necessary.
Hasanov talked about Yerevan once again transferring weapons and soldiers to Armenian armed units - which he described as illegal - remaining in a part of Azerbaijani territory where Russian peacekeepers are temporarily deployed.
He stressed the continuation of monitoring the movements of these units, as well as the Armenian forces.
The minister's statements came a week after Baku announced a clash with Armenian forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which resulted in the death of two of its soldiers, while Yerevan confirmed the death of 3 Armenian policemen.
Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a war to control Karabakh at the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, which resulted in 30,000 deaths and ended with Armenia's victory.
Another conflict broke out in the fall of 2020, which lasted 44 days, killing 6,500 people, and allowed Baku to recover large areas of land, and Russian peacekeepers deployed after reaching a ceasefire agreement mediated by Moscow that ended this war, but the tension is still high at a time that did not happen. There is no progress in the negotiations regarding the signing of a peace treaty.