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Azerbaijan claims Armenia opened fire on its army just days after peace agreement

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Baku and Yerevan said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict. Illustrative photo by Aziz Karimov/Getty Images
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Azerbaijan has claimed that Armenia opened fire on its positions on Sunday morning, just days after the countries agreed a draft peace deal.

The accusation was vehemently denied by Armenian officials, who accused their Azeri counterparts of spreading disinformation. 


Defense officials in Azerbaijan said that the alleged incident happened around 9:45 a.m. local time, with Armenian troops shooting at Azerbaijani army positions from a location in the Goris region of the southeastern Syunik province. 


It said the incident involved “small arms,” without providing more information. 


Armenia’s defense ministry hit back, saying the claim “does not correspond to reality.” 


Baku and Yerevan said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of an agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the two countries, in an unexpected breakthrough in peace talks. 


Responding to Sunday’s allegations, Armenia that it had “proposed the establishment of a joint Armenian-Azerbaijani mechanism for the investigation of ceasefire violations and related incidents” but that Azerbaijan had not responded to the proposal. 


The two post-Soviet countries have fought a series of wars since the late 1980s when Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan that had a mostly ethnic-Armenian population at the time, broke away from Azerbaijan with support from Armenia. 

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