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AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER KILLED NEAR KARABAKH: MINISTRY
Agence France Presse
January 26, 2011 Wednesday 7:03 AM GMT
An Azerbaijani army soldier has been killed in the latest outbreak
of shooting around the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region, Azerbaijan's
defence ministry said on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the defence ministry in Baku told AFP the soldier had
been killed on Tuesday when Armenian forces opened fire on Azerbaijani
positions across the ceasefire line, which has divided the opposing
sides since the end of the Karabakh war in 1994.
It was the third reported death amid exchanges of fire this month.
Tensions over Karabakh have mounted over the past year amid stalled
peace talks, with more than 20 soldiers reported to have been killed
in 2010.
International mediators have raised concern about increasing violence
over the region, where ethnic Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan
seized control from Baku in a war in the early 1990s that left an
estimated 30,000 dead.
Azerbaijan has threatened to use force to win back Karabakh if peace
talks do not yield satisfactory results, while Armenia has warned of
large-scale retaliation if Baku launches any military action.
From: A. Papazian
Agence France Presse
January 26, 2011 Wednesday 7:03 AM GMT
An Azerbaijani army soldier has been killed in the latest outbreak
of shooting around the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region, Azerbaijan's
defence ministry said on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the defence ministry in Baku told AFP the soldier had
been killed on Tuesday when Armenian forces opened fire on Azerbaijani
positions across the ceasefire line, which has divided the opposing
sides since the end of the Karabakh war in 1994.
It was the third reported death amid exchanges of fire this month.
Tensions over Karabakh have mounted over the past year amid stalled
peace talks, with more than 20 soldiers reported to have been killed
in 2010.
International mediators have raised concern about increasing violence
over the region, where ethnic Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan
seized control from Baku in a war in the early 1990s that left an
estimated 30,000 dead.
Azerbaijan has threatened to use force to win back Karabakh if peace
talks do not yield satisfactory results, while Armenia has warned of
large-scale retaliation if Baku launches any military action.
From: A. Papazian