Increasingly there is a sense that both sides in the Karabakh conflict are playing with fire, and that sooner or later the ability of the international community to extinguish a small blaze may lead to a much more complex and bloody situation.

An OSCE statement said that at the request of the sides, a humanitarian operation to retrieve the remains of Azerbaijani servicemen from the heavily mined no man's land took place on Monday, 27 February

More than fifty academics, diplomats, regional experts and activists from the South Caucasus, wider Europe and beyond, gathered in Oxford on 27 and 28 February to discuss "The South Caucasus at a time of shifting international paradigms".

Speaking at a press brieifng after meeting the Armenian President in Brussels , EU Council President Donald Tusk spoke on the Karabakh conflict, saying, "the status quo is unsustainable. The conflict needs an early political settlement in accordance with international law. It does not have a military solution."

The visit of President Sargsyan to Brussels is shortly coming to an end. This afternoon he has met with EU High Representative Federica Morgherini and with the European Commission President, Jean Claude Juncker. (This live blog is now closed)

There are reports that five bodies of Azerbaijani soldiers remain in the area of the line of contact known as no man's land. The co-Chair called the sides to allow the recovery of the dead and not to move heavy military equipment.

In a statement, the Platform says the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be resolved only by peaceful means and through dialogue between the two nations, and calls on the sides to cease hostilities and settle the conflict in line with international law as soon as possible.

The world must remember Khojaly in order to ensure that it will never happen again to any community regardless of its ethnicity.

Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of attempted incursions. Azerbaijan says it has suffered casualties overnight. Armenian sources say they killed two Azerbaijani soldiers and suffered no casualties

A 20 year old Azerbaijani soldier was killed by Armenian shelling, and a 26 year old Armenian died in unclear circumstances in the last twenty four hours. Other casualties are reported but cannot be confirmed.