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Aug 3 2014
Fifteen die in clashes over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh
Sunday, 03 August 2014 07:22
Written by BBC
THE worst clashes in years over the disputed Armenian enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan have left 15 soldiers dead in recent
days.
Azerbaijan says 12 of its troops were killed in the past four days
while the enclave's ethnic Armenian authorities say three of their
soldiers died.
Armenia says the presidents of the two countries are to meet next week
to try to calm the situation.
A ceasefire was agreed 20 years ago after 30,000 deaths over six years.
The two sides blame each other for violating the ceasefire since then.
International attempts to revive the peace process stalled recently
and both Azerbaijan and Armenia have been using increasingly militant
rhetoric regarding the dispute, Konul Khalilova of the BBC's Azeri
service says.
Every year, hundreds of people, including many civilians, die along
the Line of Contact between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan as the
result of skirmishes and sniper fire, she adds.Armenia's Prime
Minister, Hovik Abrahamyan, announced late on Saturday that President
Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia would meet his Azerbaijani counterpart,
Ilham Aliyev, in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi next Friday or
Saturday.
Russia, which brokered the 1994 ceasefire, said in a statement on its
foreign ministry's website (in Russian): "We see the events of recent
days as a serious violation of agreements on a ceasefire and declared
intentions to achieve a regulation through political means. "We take
the position that any further escalation is unacceptable."
The US co-chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, which works to resolve the dispute,
expressed concern over the violence on Friday.
"We are seriously concerned about the recent upsurge in violence along
the line of contact," James Warlick said in a tweet. "The ceasefire
needs to be respected."
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/world-news/173517-fifteen-die-in-clashes-over-disputed-nagorno-karabakh
Aug 3 2014
Fifteen die in clashes over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh
Sunday, 03 August 2014 07:22
Written by BBC
THE worst clashes in years over the disputed Armenian enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan have left 15 soldiers dead in recent
days.
Azerbaijan says 12 of its troops were killed in the past four days
while the enclave's ethnic Armenian authorities say three of their
soldiers died.
Armenia says the presidents of the two countries are to meet next week
to try to calm the situation.
A ceasefire was agreed 20 years ago after 30,000 deaths over six years.
The two sides blame each other for violating the ceasefire since then.
International attempts to revive the peace process stalled recently
and both Azerbaijan and Armenia have been using increasingly militant
rhetoric regarding the dispute, Konul Khalilova of the BBC's Azeri
service says.
Every year, hundreds of people, including many civilians, die along
the Line of Contact between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan as the
result of skirmishes and sniper fire, she adds.Armenia's Prime
Minister, Hovik Abrahamyan, announced late on Saturday that President
Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia would meet his Azerbaijani counterpart,
Ilham Aliyev, in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi next Friday or
Saturday.
Russia, which brokered the 1994 ceasefire, said in a statement on its
foreign ministry's website (in Russian): "We see the events of recent
days as a serious violation of agreements on a ceasefire and declared
intentions to achieve a regulation through political means. "We take
the position that any further escalation is unacceptable."
The US co-chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, which works to resolve the dispute,
expressed concern over the violence on Friday.
"We are seriously concerned about the recent upsurge in violence along
the line of contact," James Warlick said in a tweet. "The ceasefire
needs to be respected."
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/world-news/173517-fifteen-die-in-clashes-over-disputed-nagorno-karabakh