TWO AZERI SOLDIERS KILLED IN KARABAKH FIGHTING
By Armen Dulian

Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
Sept 5 2007

The Azerbaijani military reported on Wednesday that two of its
soldiers have been killed in skirmishes with Armenian forces east
of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Azerbaijani media cited the Defense Ministry in Baku as saying that
the two incidents occurred in Azerbaijan’s Aghdam and Fizuli districts
mostly controlled by the Karabakh Armenian army. One of the victims,
aged 19, was reported to have died in hospital on Tuesday night.

The ministry claimed that the fighting was the result of an Armenian
ceasefire violation. It said Azerbaijani troops returned fire and
killed three Armenian soldiers.

A Karabakh military spokesman, Senor Hasratian, denied this, saying
that the Armenian side has registered no ceasefire violations and
suffered no casualties on the main Armenian-Azerbaijani line of
contact in recent days.

Deadly skirmishes along the Karabakh frontline and the heavily
militarized Armenian-Azerbaijani border remain a regular occurrence,
with each party accusing the other of breaching a 1994 truce
that stopped their bitter war for the Armenian-populated disputed
territory. The defense ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia held a
rare meeting last year in a bid to minimize such incidents.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress