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    AZERBAIJAIN STAGES 'MAJOR DRILLS' NEAR DISPUTED REGION
    Ilya Pitalev

    RIA Novosti
    11/07/2012
    BAKU

    Azerbaijan's armed forces have been staging major military exercises
    near the Armenian-backed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijan
    military said.

    Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev is overlooking the drills,
    which involve troops as well as "the use of modern machinery and
    weapons," a ministry spokesman told RIA Novosti.

    The exercises will end on Friday.

    Last month, three Armenian and five Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in
    shoot-outs across the border, prompting U.S. State Secretary Hillary
    Clinton to call for restraint.

    The two former Soviet republics fought a bloody war over the enclave of
    Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 1990s which left some 30,000 people dead.

    Last month, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and
    Cooperation in Europe, Lamberto Zannier, said there was "increasing
    concern" about a lack of progress in international efforts to resolve
    the conflict.

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