ARMENIAN SIDE REFUTES

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[07:30 pm] 19 January, 2009

According to Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry, on January 18-19 Armenian
armed forces periodically opened fire at the subdivisions of Azeri
armed forces near the town of Berd.

The ministry also says that they opened return fire on the Armenian
side. The exchange of fire stopped shortly afterwards. There are no
victims, notes the Azeri Defence Ministry.

Spokesman for the RA Defence Ministry Seyran Shahsuvaryan refutes
the information and says it does not correspond to the facts. Seyran
Shahsuvaryan also says no fire was opened on the Armenia-Azerbaijan
frontier on January 18-19.