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    RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic
    April 20 2006

    Ethnic-Armenian Forces End Military Exercises in Karabakh

    The Nagorno-Karabakh army in training, 2005
    (Photolur)

    April 20, 2006 -- Ethnic-Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh
    concluded a week of military exercises today in the disputed enclave.

    About 1,500 soldiers took part in the exercises, which took place
    mainly around the central Agdam region. The area is near the
    so-called line of control that separates ethnic-Armenian and
    Azerbaijani forces.

    The drills were observed by the defense minister and chief of general
    staff from Armenia.

    Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan but is populated mostly by
    ethnic Armenians. Clashes regularly break out between the two sides.

    At least 30,000 people have been killed and 1 million made refugees
    during six years of open conflict that
    ended with a ceasefire in 1994.
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