Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
Feb 21 2009

Armenian Armed Forces wounds Azerbaijani soldier
21.02.09 17:14

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 21 /Trend News, S.Jaliloglu/

Azerbaijani soldier Orkhan Akhundov was wounded as a result of
ceasefire breaking by Armenian Armed Forces on Saturday. Armenian
Armed Forces fired Terter region of Azerbaijan.

Akhundov, 20, was drafted to the military service from Shamkir
region. The solder was placed to a military hospital.

Another Azerbaijani soldier Javid Suleymanov, 20, was killed as a
result of ceasefire breaking agreementby Armenian military forces in
Garakhanbayli village of Fuzuli region on Feb. 20.

Two Azerbaijani soldiers, Askar Mardanov and Tural Hajiyev, died as a
result of mine detonating near the Goradiz village in Fuzuli region on
Feb. 19.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
lost all of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Shusha and Khojali in December
1991. In 1992-93, Armenian armed forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and 7
districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed
a ceasefire in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group ` Russia,
France, and the U.S. ` are currently holding the peace negotiations.