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    Associated Press Worldstream
    June 26, 2004 Saturday

    Armenia will take part in NATO-sponsored exercises in Azerbaijan

    YEREVAN, Armenia


    Armenia will take part in NATO-sponsored exercises in Azerbaijan this
    fall in spite of tensions between the two countries, a top Armenian
    military official said Saturday.

    Col. Murad Isakhanian, the chief Armenian representative at the Baku
    planning conference for NATO's Partnership for Peace maneuvers, said
    Azerbaijan had given security guarantees for the Armenian contingent
    at the Cooperative Best Effort-2004 exercises in the Azerbaijani
    capital Baku in September.

    Earlier this week, several protesters broke into the planning meeting
    in Baku and called on Azerbaijan to stop negotiations with Armenia.
    The incident highlighted tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh - a territory
    disputed by both countries. Isakhanian and another Armenian officer
    were among those attending the conference.

    Protesters and hotel security guards suffered minor injuries in the
    incident in the hotel. Eight people were detained by police.

    Armenia and Azerbaijan are at odds over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave,
    which Armenian forces seized from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. A
    1994 cease-fire has largely held, but no final settlement has been
    reached. Neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan are NATO members, but both
    former Soviet republics participate in NATO's Partnership for Peace
    program.

    Isakhanian said Saturday that Azerbaijani authorities had apologized
    for the Baku incident.
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