A military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is inevitable if a peaceful settlement cannot be reached, Azerbaijan's Defense Minister said Monday, threatened Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic with renewed war, news.az reported.

The Azeri Defense Minister, during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sunday, warned that if the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not resolved, military action would be inevitable.

One Armenian soldier has been killed in the latest ceasefire violation on the Karabakh-Azerbaijani "line of contact," military authorities in Stepanakert and Yerevan said on Friday.