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NAGORNO-KARABAKH SAYS HAS KILLED "ABOUT SEVEN" AZERI SOLDIERS
Interfax
Nov 28 2011
Russia
Azerbaijan's disputed Armenian-speaking enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh
said on Saturday that its armed forces had killed "about seven"
Azeri servicemen in retaliation for the death of two Nagorno-Karabakh
soldiers allegedly killed by Azeri snipers.
"In response to the death of two soldiers of the Defense Army of the
Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Nagorno-Karabakh side has resorted
to punitive measures, as it warned. According to the reconnaissance
service of the Defense Army of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh,
about seven members of the Azeri armed forces were killed and some were
wounded as a result of pre-emptive measures in the period from November
20 to November 25," The enclave's defense ministry told Interfax.
The ministry accused Azerbaijan of about 270 violations of the
ceasefire for the past week.
Interfax has not yet been able to obtain comments from Azeri
authorities.
Meanwhile, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan warned on Saturday that
"there will be no peace" on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan
for as long as the Nagorno-Karabakh problem remains unsolved.
"But we don't want this restive situation to be the cause of human
deaths," Sargsyan told a briefing in Armenia's Gegharkunik province.
He blamed the deaths of both Armenian and Azeri soldiers on Azerbaijan.
Aren Simonian and Migran Margarian, 19-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh
soldiers, were reportedly killed by sniper fire from Azerbaijan on
November 19-20.
Interfax
Nov 28 2011
Russia
Azerbaijan's disputed Armenian-speaking enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh
said on Saturday that its armed forces had killed "about seven"
Azeri servicemen in retaliation for the death of two Nagorno-Karabakh
soldiers allegedly killed by Azeri snipers.
"In response to the death of two soldiers of the Defense Army of the
Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Nagorno-Karabakh side has resorted
to punitive measures, as it warned. According to the reconnaissance
service of the Defense Army of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh,
about seven members of the Azeri armed forces were killed and some were
wounded as a result of pre-emptive measures in the period from November
20 to November 25," The enclave's defense ministry told Interfax.
The ministry accused Azerbaijan of about 270 violations of the
ceasefire for the past week.
Interfax has not yet been able to obtain comments from Azeri
authorities.
Meanwhile, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan warned on Saturday that
"there will be no peace" on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan
for as long as the Nagorno-Karabakh problem remains unsolved.
"But we don't want this restive situation to be the cause of human
deaths," Sargsyan told a briefing in Armenia's Gegharkunik province.
He blamed the deaths of both Armenian and Azeri soldiers on Azerbaijan.
Aren Simonian and Migran Margarian, 19-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh
soldiers, were reportedly killed by sniper fire from Azerbaijan on
November 19-20.