New shots between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the day the EU deploys its mission on the border

The destruction of Nagorno-Karabakh region should be brought to the International Court of Justice, according to Erdogan

Oct. 20 () –

The Armenian Ministry of Defense has accused Azerbaijan on Thursday of opening fire on its positions on the east of the border on the same day that the European Union expert mission has begun to deploy to facilitate the restoration of peace and security. In the area.

Yerevan has accused Baku of firing rifles of different calibers at its positions, while, for its part, the Azeri Ministry of Defense has reproached the Armenian Armed Forces for “intermittent” firing from Basarkecher towards the Kalbajar district.

“The units of the Azerbaijani Army located in the aforementioned addresses took adequate response measures,” said the Azeri side before the exchange of fire, which has not left, for the moment, neither injured nor dead.

The team of 40 EU experts has moved from Georgia, where the EU maintains a civilian advisory mission, to the Armenian area of ​​the border, where there has been an upsurge in fighting in September with the incursion of Azeri forces into armenian soil.

The mission aims to facilitate the promotion of trust between the two parties and promote the delimitation of the international border. This decision follows the conclusions agreed in the meetings between the parties, with the mediation of the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the French President, Emmanuel Macron, at the European summit in Prague.

ERDOGAN APPEALS TO THE HAGUE COURT

On the sidelines of the clashes, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, appeared at a press conference together with the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and explained that the destruction of the Upper Karabakh region should be brought before the International Court of Justice.

“What did they do to Jabrayil — a town in Azerbaijan — during the occupation period? I asked Aliyev: ‘Did the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) or the EU come to this place?’ He told me: ‘No, they didn’t come’. Why not? Because they would see their own misfortune. They would see what the West did with Jabrayil and all of Karabakh by supporting the occupation process,” he said, according to the agency. Anatolian news.

For his part, the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinián, opened a session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Yerevan, in which his Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh and Kyrgyz counterparts participated, as well as the Chairman of the Board of the Economic Commission Eurasian (EEC), Mijail Miasnikovich.