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    FRANCE CONCERNED AS ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI TENSIONS RISE

    Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
    September 4, 2012 Tuesday

    PARIS, Sept 4 (KUNA) -- The French government expressed concern
    over the impact of the official pardon of an Azeri national after he
    murdered an Armenian officer eight years ago, a crime for which he
    was convicted in 2006.

    The Azeri authorities announced August 31 that they were releasing
    the individual who was initially tried and convicted in Hungary before
    being extradited to Azerbaijan.

    Armenia has vociferously protested the pardon and said "it is ready
    to go to war" over the case.

    The latest tensions follow on months of serious incidents on the
    Azerbaijan-Armenian border, with violent clashes leaving a number of
    dead, mainly among the Armenian armed forces.

    France and the other co-presidents of the Minsk Group, which also
    includes Russia and the United States, have undertaken active diplomacy
    to try to defuse the crisis and brought Foreign Ministers from both
    countries to Paris in July.

    "France, which is strongly committed in favour of a peaceful solution
    to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as are the other co-presidents of
    the Minsk group, considers that this (pardon) decision risk gravely
    damaging the negotiations and the establishment of a climate of
    confidence between the two parties," a statement said late Monday.

    Armenia and Azerbaijan both claim the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave and
    clash regularly in this dispute and have once gone to all-out war
    over the territory. (end) jk.hb KUNA 040915 Sep 12NNNN

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