Agence France Presse — English
March 15, 2005 Tuesday 5:29 PM GMT

Two Azeri soldiers reported killed in ceasefire breach

BAKU

Two Azeri soldiers were killed Monday in a ceasefire breach along the
tense line dividing Azerbaijan and Armenian-occupied territory, Azeri
television reported Tuesday.

A “shootout resulted in the killing of one soldier by sniper fire
while another was wounded in the shoulder and taken to an hospital
where he died,” ATV said in an evening news bulletin.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a stalemate over the
ethnic Armenian enclave Nagorno Karabakh ever since they ended
large-scale hostilities with an uneasy ceasefire agreement in 1994.

Armenia controls Karabakh and seven surrounding regions equal to
roughly 14 percent of Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized
territory.

Last year six people lost their lives in ceasefire breaches while an
additional 13 people were killed and 21 injured on landmines around
Karabakh.