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    Interfax, Russia
    Feb 28 2009


    Azerbaijan arrests 3 Armenian soldiers - N.-Karabakh

    YEREVAN Feb 28


    The Nagorno-Karabakh military, apparently confirming an Azeri
    television report, said Azeri soldiers on Saturday arrested three
    Armenian draftee servicemen who had crossed onto Azeri territory.

    "Three Armenian servicemen have been taken prisoner," Nagorno-
    Karabakh Defense Army spokesman Senor Asratian told Interfax.

    "Before dawn on Saturday, under circumstances that are not yet clear,
    three draftees crossed the security zone adjoining the line of
    separation between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan
    and entered Azeri-controlled territory," he said.

    In an earlier report that has not yet been confirmed by the Azeri
    Defense Ministry, Azeri television channel ANS said three uniformed
    men believed to be Armenian had been arrested in Azerbaijan's Agdam
    district.

    The men asked for food and water on a local farm but local people
    suspected they were Armenian and reported them to an army unit
    stationed nearby, ANS said. Azeri soldiers arrested the suspects.
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