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    Interfax News Agency, Russia
    March 13 2008


    No new incidents in Nagorno-Karabakh - Yerevan

    YEREVAN


    There have been no new incidents at the dividing line between
    Azerbaijan and the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh,
    Armenian Prime Minister Vartan Oskanian said, adding that he hoped
    the ceasefire will hold.

    "There was a provocation on the part of Azerbaijan, but we cut it
    short. Azerbaijan continues to spread false information that shooting
    continues and that it is incurring losses. We refute all this
    information," Oskanian told a press conference in Yerevan on
    Thursday.

    "We do not know how the Azeri side explains these victims, where do
    they take these numbers from. Most probably, these are the people
    that were killed on March 4," he said.

    Commenting on reports in the Azeri media that an operation against
    Kurds on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh was possible, Oskanian
    said, "This is a lie and a provocation on the part of Azerbaijan."

    "This information has as its goal to influence the international
    community and bolster the Azeri-Turkish alliance. The Armenian
    Foreign Ministry carefully followed these statements," he said.

    The Armenian Foreign Ministry is contacting all the people the Azeri
    media have referred to. "These people are surprised that somebody has
    been making such statements on their behalf. There is no truth here,"
    he said.

    According to Armenia, a subversive Azeri group violated the ceasefire
    and attacked the advance post of the army of Nagorno-Karabakh near to
    Levonarkh in Martakert district and temporarily occupied it, before
    it was forces to retreat to its earlier positions through response
    actions and losses.

    The Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry demanded that the Organization
    for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) send a monitoring
    mission. The monitoring was planned for March 7, but it was conducted
    only on the Karabakh side, Armenia said.
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