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Press TV, Iran
Jan 17 2015
Armenian solider killed by Azeri troops during firefight
An Armenian solider has been killed by Azeri troops during a border
skirmish amid an ongoing conflict between the two countries.
Armenian contract serviceman Arman Arutyunian was killed in a
firefight initiated from Azeri positions on Saturday, said the
Armenian defense minister's press secretary, Artsrun Hovhannisyan.
The fighting broke out near Armenia's northeastern city of Voskevan, he added.
Last year, multiple confrontations between Baku and Yerevan over the
disputed mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh left dozens of troops
dead from both sides.
The two ex-Soviet nations claim the disputed territory, which is
largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave in the early 1990s
during a six-year war that lasted from February 1988 to May 1994.
An estimated 30,000 people died during the conflict which also left
around one million others displaced before the two sides agreed to a
ceasefire in 1994. A permanent peace accord has never been inked and
the dispute still remains unsettled.
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the region by force if
negotiations between the two sides fail to yield results, while
Armenia has pledged to retaliate against any military action.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/17/393568/Armenian-solider-killed-by-Azari-troops-
Jan 17 2015
Armenian solider killed by Azeri troops during firefight
An Armenian solider has been killed by Azeri troops during a border
skirmish amid an ongoing conflict between the two countries.
Armenian contract serviceman Arman Arutyunian was killed in a
firefight initiated from Azeri positions on Saturday, said the
Armenian defense minister's press secretary, Artsrun Hovhannisyan.
The fighting broke out near Armenia's northeastern city of Voskevan, he added.
Last year, multiple confrontations between Baku and Yerevan over the
disputed mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh left dozens of troops
dead from both sides.
The two ex-Soviet nations claim the disputed territory, which is
largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave in the early 1990s
during a six-year war that lasted from February 1988 to May 1994.
An estimated 30,000 people died during the conflict which also left
around one million others displaced before the two sides agreed to a
ceasefire in 1994. A permanent peace accord has never been inked and
the dispute still remains unsettled.
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the region by force if
negotiations between the two sides fail to yield results, while
Armenia has pledged to retaliate against any military action.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/17/393568/Armenian-solider-killed-by-Azari-troops-