KARABAKH DENIES AZERI REPORT OF TRUCE VIOLATION

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
Oct 18 2006

Yerevan, 18 October: The head of the press centre of the Karabakh
defence army, Lt-Col Senor Asratyan, today denied the report of the
Azerbaijani Defence Ministry that the Karabakh forces allegedly fired
at Azerbaijani positions in Fuzuli and Agdam districts on 16 October.

In an interview with Mediamax, Asratyan described these reports as
"another piece of disinformation aimed at discrediting the Nagornyy
Karabakh republic [NKR]".

He did not rule out that such propaganda steps are being taken because
Azerbaijan’s attempts to get the international community to accuse
Nagornyy Karabakh of deliberate arson on the territories controlled
by the NKR "have failed".