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FIGHTING ERUPTS IN ARMENIA-AZERI BORDER
Preciosa Dumlao
All Headline News
March 5 2008
Yerevan, Armenia (AHN) - Fighting has erupted at the Armenia-Azeri
border over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh Tuesday, after
Azerbaijani troops accused Armenian forces of violating a truce
agreement to divert attention from domestic problems.
Reports said two Azeris and one Armenian were killed during the
fighting.
Both sides accuse each other of initiating the breach in the ceasefire
agreement reached in 1994 With Azeri accusing Armenia of taking
advantage of internal strife in Yerevan over the latest elections,
to launch an attack. For its part, Armenia demands that Azerbaijan
immediately halt its latest aggression into the Markaderk area in
the Nagorno-Karabak region, a disputed Armenian-controlled enclave
inside Azerbaijan.
Armenia took control over the territory in a full-scale war which
ended in a ceasefire in 1994. But Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev
has said his country is ready to re-take the regioin anytime.
Azerbaijan has been stock piling on military hardware and ammunition
in anticipation of renewed war with Armenia.
Reports said a positional battle between the two countries were on
going with the Armenian troops retreating in the initial confrontation
but later on regained lost grounds.
"We condemn this aggression and demand that the Azeri side stop the
armed hostilities and resume a ceasefire," Oskanian said.
As fighting rages on in the north, the Armenian police on Tuesday
arrested 30 oppositionists who were accused of starting the clashes
with the police on Saturday. The opposition has accused the government
of rigging the results of the February presidential elections.
The election was officially won by Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian,
defeating top opposition bet Levon Ter-Petrosian. Sarkisian garnered
53 percent of the votes cast in the February 19 elections, with
Ter-Petrosian getting 21.5 percent.
Oskanian accuse Azerbaijan of taking advantage of the internal strife
inside Armenia to launch an attack.
Preciosa Dumlao
All Headline News
March 5 2008
Yerevan, Armenia (AHN) - Fighting has erupted at the Armenia-Azeri
border over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh Tuesday, after
Azerbaijani troops accused Armenian forces of violating a truce
agreement to divert attention from domestic problems.
Reports said two Azeris and one Armenian were killed during the
fighting.
Both sides accuse each other of initiating the breach in the ceasefire
agreement reached in 1994 With Azeri accusing Armenia of taking
advantage of internal strife in Yerevan over the latest elections,
to launch an attack. For its part, Armenia demands that Azerbaijan
immediately halt its latest aggression into the Markaderk area in
the Nagorno-Karabak region, a disputed Armenian-controlled enclave
inside Azerbaijan.
Armenia took control over the territory in a full-scale war which
ended in a ceasefire in 1994. But Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev
has said his country is ready to re-take the regioin anytime.
Azerbaijan has been stock piling on military hardware and ammunition
in anticipation of renewed war with Armenia.
Reports said a positional battle between the two countries were on
going with the Armenian troops retreating in the initial confrontation
but later on regained lost grounds.
"We condemn this aggression and demand that the Azeri side stop the
armed hostilities and resume a ceasefire," Oskanian said.
As fighting rages on in the north, the Armenian police on Tuesday
arrested 30 oppositionists who were accused of starting the clashes
with the police on Saturday. The opposition has accused the government
of rigging the results of the February presidential elections.
The election was officially won by Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian,
defeating top opposition bet Levon Ter-Petrosian. Sarkisian garnered
53 percent of the votes cast in the February 19 elections, with
Ter-Petrosian getting 21.5 percent.
Oskanian accuse Azerbaijan of taking advantage of the internal strife
inside Armenia to launch an attack.