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    Armed incident happens on Azerbaijani-Armenian border

    Itar Tass
    08.06.2004, 19.32

    BAKU, June 8 (Itar-Tass) -- One serviceman was killed and another was
    wounded in Armenian shooting at Azerbaijani positions in the Fizuli
    district of Southwest Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry
    reported on Tuesday.

    The ministry said that Azerbaijani positions came under large-caliber
    machinegun fire in the Kazakh district in the country's west as
    well. The shooting stopped only after Azerbaijani servicemen opened
    fire, the ministry said.

    The ministry bluntly denied Armenian claims of alleged movement of
    Azerbaijani units in the conflict zone.

    Meanwhile, press secretary of the Armenian defense minister Col. Seiran
    Shakhsuvaryan told Itar-Tass that Azerbaijani units tried to take
    more advantageous positions on the border near Berkaber village of
    Armenia's Tavush district in the small hours of Monday.

    He said Armenian units tried to stop Azerbaijani soldiers from
    moving towards a local pump station and the soldiers opened fire at
    the village. "Armenian units had to suppress the Azerbaijani fire,"
    he said. Shakhsuvaryan said that none of the Armenian servicemen was
    killed or wounded.
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