Armenian spy killed on Azerbaijan border, says Baku

Focus News, Bulgaria
July 19 2008

20 July 2008 | 00:54 | FOCUS News Agency

BAKU. Azerbaijani soldiers overnight killed a suspected Armenian
intelligence agent who tried to cross the border, Azerbaijan’s defence
ministry said Saturday in a statement.

The incident occurred in a village in Azerbaijan’s north-western Tovuz
region, the ministry said, adding that two other intelligence agents
fled. Armenia and Azerbaijan remain locked in a tense stand-off over
the enclave of Nagorny Karabakh, where ethnic Armenian forces took
control during a war in the early 1990s that killed thousands and
forced nearly a million people on both sides to flee their homes.

A ceasefire was signed between the two former Soviet republics in 1994
but the dispute remains unresolved after more than a decade of
negotiations, and shootings are common. Up to 16 soldiers were killed
in a clash last month.

Nagorny-Karabakh is a 4,400-square-kilometre (1,700-square-mile)
enclave surrounded by Azerbaijan.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS