New EU Special Representative meets Armenian leadership as tension on line of contact increases, with both sides reporting fatalities.

Senior Azerbaijani official again publicly rebukes ICRC on case involving Azerbaijanis captured in Khaljabar earlier this month.

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26 July: Both Armenia and Azerbaijan report extensive violations of the cease-fire on the line of contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone last night and early this morning. Azerbaijan says that two civilians were injured after extensive Armenian fire in the village of Alibayli in the Tovuz District. It also says it has repulsed attempts of infiltration by Armenian reconnaissance groups in Aghdam and Goranboy. Armenia says that there was continuous fire from the Azerbaijani side on a number of villages overnight. It says that it has not suffered any casualties

23 July: The co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group have tonight issued a statement after separate meetings with the Armenian and the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers yesterday in Brussels. The Co-Chair expressed their serious concern about the increase in tensions and violence, including the targeted killings of civilians, along the Line of Contact and the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Herbert Salber said that the EU is determined to expand relations with the region and to contribute to a solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Author and journalist Tom du Waal was recently in the South Caucasus for the launch of the Russian version of his book The Black Garden. Azerbaijani journalist Seymour Kazimov caught up with him in Tbilisi and asked him on his views on the Karabakh conflict and its resolution.

19 July: Azerbaijan has said that a civilian was shot dead by Armenian forces on Friday as he was fishing near the village of Chayli, in the Tartar District in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. The villager was named as 26 year old Mubariz Aliyev. The body of the deceased has now been handed over to his family for burial.

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hassanov criticised the failure of the ICRC to secure a meeting with two Azerbaijanis taken prisoner by Armenians in the last days and said this may lead to the expulsion of the organisation from Azerbaijan.

Armenians say they were a terrorist group, but Azerbaijan insists they were simple people, nostalgic for their home village.