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  • Five Azeri Troops Killed In Border Clash: Baku.June 5, 2012

    FIVE AZERI TROOPS KILLED IN BORDER CLASH: BAKU.JUNE 5, 2012
    By : Gary Dunn

    The Australian Eye
    http://www.theaustralianeye.com/news/five-azeri-troops-killed-in-border-clash-baku-aoi35834928.html
    June 5 2012

    Armenian forces killed five Azerbaijani soldiers in a new border clash
    Tuesday, Baku said, in a new flaring of tensions as US Secretary of
    State Hillary Clinton visits the volatile Caucasus region.

    The Azerbaijani defence ministry said fighting broke out when "a
    group of Armenian saboteurs made an attempt to penetrate the military
    positions of the national army" in the country's north-west.

    "During the fight, four soldiers of the Azerbaijani armed forces were
    killed and another died as a result of the Armenians opening fire,"
    the ministry said in a statement.

    On Monday, Armenia alleged that Azerbaijani troops had killed three of
    its soldiers and wounded six more during another deadly battle on the
    border between the enemy ex-Soviet states, although Baku denied this.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia are locked in a long-running conflict over the
    territory of Nagorny Karabakh, where they fought a war in the 1990s
    that killed some 30,000 people, but this week's clashes erupted away
    from the disputed region.

    Visiting Yerevan on Monday, Clinton said she was concerned by the
    rising tensions and warned Armenia and Azerbaijan not to settle their
    conflict by force.

    "I am very concerned about the danger of escalation of tensions
    and the senseless deaths of young soldiers and innocent civilians,"
    she said after Monday's violence.

    "The use of force will not resolve the Nagorny Karabakh conflict and
    therefore force must not be used."

    The Karabakh war saw Armenia-backed separatists seize the region
    from Azerbaijan.

    Despite years of negotiations since the 1994 ceasefire, the two sides
    have not yet signed a final peace deal and there are still frequent
    exchanges of gunfire along the front line.

    Azerbaijan has threatened to use force to win back Karabakh if peace
    talks fail to yield satisfactory results, but Armenia has warned of
    large-scale retaliation against any military action.

    Clinton is due to visit Baku on Wednesday.

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