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    ARMENIA ACCUSES AZERBAIJANI SNIPER OF KILLING SOLDIER

    Associated Press Worldstream
    September 25, 2006 Monday 1:29 PM GMT

    The Armenian Defense Ministry said Monday that an Azerbaijani sniper
    had killed an Armenian soldier.

    Warrant officer Garnik Melian was fatally shot in the chest Saturday
    near the Armenian city of Idzhevan in what the ministry called an
    Azerbaijani cease-fire violation.

    The two countries are at odds over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, an
    ethnic Armenian territory inside Azerbaijan. A cease-fire agreement was
    reached in 1994 after six years of fighting, and the territory is now
    under the control of ethnic Armenians, whose troops face Azerbaijani
    forces across a half-mile-wide (kilometer-wide) no man's land.

    Clashes break out sporadically along the tense border, and the
    countries' presidents have traded increasingly bellicose statements.
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