The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry made the statement in connection with the provocations committed by the Armenian side on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border recently.
"The provocations committed by the Armenian side on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border recently, including the wounding of an Azerbaijani serviceman on the Nakhchivan section of the border, escalate the situation in the region," the statement reads.
The ministry called on Armenia to immediately put an end to the provocative actions, observe the inviolability of borders and refrain from the steps leading to an aggravation of the situation in the region.