Yerevan. (Interfax) – An Armenian soldier was killed on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan on Monday, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
Ministry spokesman Col. Seiran Shakhsuvarian told Interfax the soldier had been killed by a sniper.
The incident occurred on a section of the border where there were Armenian-Azerbaijani exchanges of fire early this month. Armenia says Azerbaijani forces started the skirmishes.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been embroiled in a conflict since the early 1990s over the Azerbaijani Armenian-speaking enclave of Nagorno- Karabakh.
There was a war in early stages of the conflict in which Azerbaijan lost Nagorno-Karabakh and nearby districts, forcing about 1 million Azerbaijanis to leave their homes.
The UN Security Council demanded the withdrawal of Armenian forces from the occupied territory.
The United States, Russia and France co-head the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which mediates efforts to settle the conflict.
OSCE officials have paid two visits to the Armenian-Azerbaijani border this month.
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