Armed incident happens on Azerbaijani-Armenian border

Itar Tass
08.06.2004, 19.32

BAKU, June 8 (Itar-Tass) — One serviceman was killed and another was
wounded in Armenian shooting at Azerbaijani positions in the Fizuli
district of Southwest Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry
reported on Tuesday.

The ministry said that Azerbaijani positions came under large-caliber
machinegun fire in the Kazakh district in the country’s west as
well. The shooting stopped only after Azerbaijani servicemen opened
fire, the ministry said.

The ministry bluntly denied Armenian claims of alleged movement of
Azerbaijani units in the conflict zone.

Meanwhile, press secretary of the Armenian defense minister Col. Seiran
Shakhsuvaryan told Itar-Tass that Azerbaijani units tried to take
more advantageous positions on the border near Berkaber village of
Armenia’s Tavush district in the small hours of Monday.

He said Armenian units tried to stop Azerbaijani soldiers from
moving towards a local pump station and the soldiers opened fire at
the village. “Armenian units had to suppress the Azerbaijani fire,”
he said. Shakhsuvaryan said that none of the Armenian servicemen was
killed or wounded.