MOSCOW, July 29 (Reuters) - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday proposed that Russian border forces be stationed alongside the duration of Armenia's border with Azerbaijan amid growing tensions among Yerevan and Baku, the TASS information organisation pronounced.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each different in advance on Thursday of flouting a Russian-subsidized ceasefire that both sides had widespread yesterday to halt lethal clashes over their joint border which Yerevan wants demarcated.
"Given the present day situation, I think it makes feel to take into account the question of stationing outposts of Russian border guards alongside the complete duration of the Armenian-Azeri border," Pashinyan become quoted as saying at a government meeting.
He stated that Yerevan beca
me making ready to speak about that notion with Moscow and that the flow would permit paintings to be done at the demarcation and delimitation of the border with out the danger of navy clashes.
Armenia's defence ministry stated earlier that Azeri troops had opened fireplace on Armenian positions on the Gegharkunik segment of the border within the early hours of Thursday morning, prompting Armenia to go back fireplace. It defined the state of affairs as calm as of 0700 in a announcement.
Azerbaijan's defence ministry stated that Armenian forces had opened fireplace with machine guns and grenade launchers in the direction of a village within the Kelbajar vicinity, and had thrown hand grenades. It said its forces lower back hearth in a statement.
The ceasefire changed into called on Wednesday after one of the deadliest border incidents considering that remaining 12 months's six-week warfare among ethnic Armenian forces and Baku over the Nagorno-Karabakh area and surrounding regions.
Armenia said that three of its soldiers had been killed with 4 of them injured. Azerbaijan said that of its soldiers had been wounded.
In preventing from remaining September to November, Azeri troops drove ethnic Armenian forces out of swathes of territory they'd managed since the Nineteen Nineties in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh area, earlier than Russia brokered a ceasefire.
A simmering border dispute among the two has because flared up, with both aspects accusing every other of separate incursions into each others' territory in recent months, highlighting the fragility of the ceasefire.
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