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    NAGORNO-KARABAKH WILL RETALIATE ADEQUATELY TO AZERBAIJAN'S OFFENSIVE ACTION: PRESIDENT

    ARKA
    Sep 28, 2011

    YEREVAN, September 28. / ARKA /. Nagorno-Karabakh president, Bako
    Sahakian, has warned today Azerbaijan against adventurism, saying
    the republic is ready to retaliate to any offensive action of Baku.

    Speaking at a special meeting of the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic)
    University held to mark the 20-th anniversary of Nagorno-Karabakh
    Republic Mr. Sahakian said Nagorno-Karabakh has always supported a
    peaceful settlement of the conflict, but 'if Azerbaijan increases the
    scale of shelling on the line of contact we may resort to other ways
    of retaliation."

    The Karabakh president said the border has been protected for 17 years
    and every year there are periods of intense firing. The department
    of information and propaganda of the NKR Defense Army said Monday
    in a statement that ceasefire breaches e on the line of contact by
    Azerbaijani troops have increased dramatically. In September the
    Azerbaijani side has made more than 6,000 rounds at the positions of
    the Karabakh defense forces, violating the cease-fire 900 times.

    According to Sahakian, Azeris violate the ceasefire on special days,
    mostly festive, like during the celebration of the 20th anniversary
    of the proclamation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on Sept. 2.

    "But our response has been and remains the same - when they strike
    at us, we will not keep silent, and the enemy will always receive an
    adequate response," said Sahakian.

    The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh broke out in 1988 after the
    predominantly Armenian-populated enclave declared about secession
    from Azerbaijan As Azerbaijan declared its independence from the
    Soviet Union and removed the powers held by the enclave's government,
    the Armenian majority voted in 1991, December 10, to secede from
    Azerbaijan and in the process proclaimed the enclave the Republic
    of Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Full-scale fighting, initiated by Azerbaijan, erupted in the late
    winter of 1992. International mediation by several groups including
    Europe's OSCE's failed to bring an end resolution that both sides
    could work with. In the spring of 1993, Armenian forces captured
    regions outside the enclave itself. By the end of the war in 1994,
    the Armenians were in full control of most of the enclave and also
    held and currently control seven regions beyond the administrative
    borders of Nagorno-Karabakh. Almost 1 million people on both sides
    have been displaced as a result of the conflict. A Russian- -brokered
    ceasefire was signed in May 1994 and peace talks, mediated by the OSCE
    Minsk Group, have been held ever since by Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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