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  • Armenia forces kill second Azerbaijan soldier this week: Baku

    Agence France Presse
    March 13, 2015 Friday 4:07 PM GMT

    Armenia forces kill second Azerbaijan soldier this week: Baku

    Baku, March 13 2015


    Armenian troops have killed a second Azerbaijani soldier this week,
    Baku said Friday, threatening a "severe" response to the latest
    violence in a long-standing conflict over the disputed Nagorny
    Karabakh region.

    "On March 13, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire. An
    Azerbaijani soldier was shot dead" in the latest border clash between
    the arch-foes, Azerbaijan's defence ministry said in a statement.

    "Azerbaijan's counter-strike will be severe," it added.

    The incident comes after another soldier was killed in an attack on
    Azerbaijani positions on Wednesday.

    Baku and Yerevan have been locked in a dispute over Azerbaijan's
    Nagorny Karabakh region since a bloody war in the early 1990s.

    Yerevan-backed ethnic Armenian separatists seized control of Karabakh
    and another seven adjacent districts of Azerbaijan during the conflict
    that left some 30,000 dead.

    Despite years of negotiations, the two sides have not signed a final
    peace deal, with Armenian-populated Karabakh still internationally
    recognised as part of Azerbaijan.

    Karabakh's ethnic-Azeri community -- which before the war made up
    around 25 percent of the population -- was entirely driven out.

    Threatening a shaky 1994 truce, clashes between Azerbaijani and
    Armenian forces intensified again in January following an
    unprecedented spiral of violence last year.

    At least 18 people from both sides were reported killed and as many
    wounded this year in sporadic flare-ups on the Armenian-Azerbaijani
    border, and along the Karabakh frontline.

    Baku, whose military spending exceeds Armenia's entire state budget,
    has threatened to take back the territories by force if negotiations
    fail to yield results.

    Armenia, backed militarily by Russia, says it could crush any offensive.

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