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    RIA Novosti, Russia
    March 10 2006

    OSCE monitors ceasefire in Nagorny Karabakh
    14:42 | 10/ 03/ 2006



    YEREVAN, March 10 (RIA Novosti, Gamlet Matevosyan) - Officials from
    Europe's largest security organization Friday conducted scheduled
    ceasefire monitoring on a stretch of the border between the breakaway
    region of Nagorny Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

    Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
    Europe (OSCE) registered no violations of the ceasefire regime.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia have been exchanging allegations of numerous
    ceasefire violations on the border near the Nagorny-Karabakh conflict
    zone for the past two weeks.

    The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh, a
    region in Azerbaijan with a largely ethnic Armenian population, first
    erupted in 1988, when the region claimed independence from Azerbaijan
    to join Armenia.

    Over 30,000 people were reported dead on both sides between 1988 and
    1994, and over 100 others died after a ceasefire was concluded in
    1994, leaving Nagorny Karabakh in Armenian hands, but tensions
    between Azerbaijan and Armenia have persisted.
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