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July 19 2008
Armenian spy killed on Azerbaijan border, says Baku
20 July 2008 | 00:54 | FOCUS News Agency
BAKU. Azerbaijani soldiers overnight killed a suspected Armenian
intelligence agent who tried to cross the border, Azerbaijan's defence
ministry said Saturday in a statement.
The incident occurred in a village in Azerbaijan's north-western Tovuz
region, the ministry said, adding that two other intelligence agents
fled. Armenia and Azerbaijan remain locked in a tense stand-off over
the enclave of Nagorny Karabakh, where ethnic Armenian forces took
control during a war in the early 1990s that killed thousands and
forced nearly a million people on both sides to flee their homes.
A ceasefire was signed between the two former Soviet republics in 1994
but the dispute remains unresolved after more than a decade of
negotiations, and shootings are common. Up to 16 soldiers were killed
in a clash last month.
Nagorny-Karabakh is a 4,400-square-kilometre (1,700-square-mile)
enclave surrounded by Azerbaijan.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
July 19 2008
Armenian spy killed on Azerbaijan border, says Baku
20 July 2008 | 00:54 | FOCUS News Agency
BAKU. Azerbaijani soldiers overnight killed a suspected Armenian
intelligence agent who tried to cross the border, Azerbaijan's defence
ministry said Saturday in a statement.
The incident occurred in a village in Azerbaijan's north-western Tovuz
region, the ministry said, adding that two other intelligence agents
fled. Armenia and Azerbaijan remain locked in a tense stand-off over
the enclave of Nagorny Karabakh, where ethnic Armenian forces took
control during a war in the early 1990s that killed thousands and
forced nearly a million people on both sides to flee their homes.
A ceasefire was signed between the two former Soviet republics in 1994
but the dispute remains unresolved after more than a decade of
negotiations, and shootings are common. Up to 16 soldiers were killed
in a clash last month.
Nagorny-Karabakh is a 4,400-square-kilometre (1,700-square-mile)
enclave surrounded by Azerbaijan.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress