Azerbaijan claims Armenian forces fired at military positions in Nakhchivan
ISTANBUL (AA): Baku has said that Armenian forces fired at Azerbaijani military positions in the country’s autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, the second such incident in two days.
“On June 14, at 10 a.m. (0600GMT), the units of the Armenian armed forces … fired intensively once again from different caliber weapons on the positions of the Azerbaijan Army in the Heydarabad settlement … of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic,” a statement by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry read.
The Azerbaijani military fired in response, the statement said.
A day earlier, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported a similar incident in the same area of the Nakhchivan exclave.
After the initial incident, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry condemned Yerevan and asked it to “abandon its increasingly aggressive rhetoric and stop such steps increasing tensions in the region.”
“Furthermore, we strongly reject the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia claiming Azerbaijan allegedly purposefully targeted the metallurgical plant under construction in Armenia,” the statement said, blaming Armenia for spoiling peace-building measures in the region.
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