Armenia and Azerbaijan trade gunfire along border

Al Jazeera  :
Armenia and Azerbaijan on Thursday blamed each other for gunfire along their restive border, days ahead of EU-hosted talks aimed at resolving their three-decade territorial dispute.
The leaders of the two countries are due to hold talks in Brussels on Saturday as part of a push to normalise relations between the two neighbours in the Caucasus.
The European Union-hosted meeting comes after the United States said “tangible progress” had been made at talks between foreign ministers in Washington last week aimed at ending the dispute over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
But on Thursday, both sides accused each other of shooting along their border.
“Azerbaijani forces are shooting artillery and mortars at Armenian position in the Sotk region” in the east, Armenia’s defence ministry said in a statement, adding that three of its soldiers had been wounded.
Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said that “the Armenian side has once again violated the ceasefire agreement” with “large-calibre weapons” that wounded one Azerbaijani soldier and the mortar fire was continuing.
The incident comes just days before European council President Charles Michel is to host Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev for talks in Brussels.