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    AZERBAIJANI CIVILIAN KILLED NEAR REBEL KARABAKH: REPORTS

    Agence France Presse
    Nov 23 2009
    France

    An Azerbaijani civilian has been killed by Armenian forces near the
    disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh, Azerbaijani media reported Monday.

    ANS television and the Azeri Press Agency reported that the
    41-year-old man was killed on Sunday after Armenian forces opened
    fire on Azerbaijani positions in the Goranboy region on the de facto
    border with Karabakh.

    Officials with Azerbaijan's defence ministry could not be reached to
    confirm the reports.

    Backed by Yerevan, ethnic Armenian forces seized control of Nagorny
    Karabakh and seven surrounding districts from Azerbaijan in the early
    1990s, in a war that claimed an estimated 30,000 lives.

    Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are spread across a ceasefire line in
    and around Nagorny Karabakh, often facing each other at close range,
    and shootings are common.

    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with his Armenian counterpart
    Serzh Sarkisian in Germany on Sunday for the sixth round of talks
    this year on resolving the conflict.

    The two former Soviet republics have cut direct economic and transport
    links and failed to negotiate a settlement on the region's status.
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