Toivo Klaar expresses concern over shootings and death on Armenia-Azerbaijan border

EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, Toivo Klaar, expressed concern over the shootings on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, which led to the death of an Armenian serviceman on December 4.

“Worrying report of shootings and death on Armenia-Azerbaijan border. The EU is constantly engaged with Baku and Yerevan. It is essential that calm prevails on the ground and decisive progress is achieved at the negotiating table,” Klaar said on X.

On December 4, at around 2:35 p.m., the Azerbaijani Armed Forces opened fire on Armenian positions located in the Vayots Dzor region, as a result of which Gerasim Arakelyan, a serviceman of the Armenian Armed Forces, sustained a fatal gunshot wound.