Baku Today, Azerbaijan
June 28 2004
Azeri Soldier Killed by Armenian Rifle Shot
A soldier of the Azerbaijani army was killed by an Armenian rifle
shot in the Aghdam District area of the frontline on Monday, ANS
reported.
The Press Office of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense could not be
reached to comment on the incident.
ANS reported that the soldier, Elnur Quliyev, was fatally shot to his
breast during an Armenian assault. It was the late Quliyev’s ninth
month in the military service.
Aghdam is one of Azerbaijan’s administrative districts occupied by
Armenia in 1991-94 war. Along with Aghdam, Armenian troops invaded
and took control of Azerbaijan’s Lachin, Kelbajar, Fuzuli, Jebrail,
Qubadli, Zengilan as well as Nagorno-Karabakh regions during the war.
A cease-fire agreement signed in May 1994 between the two countries
is frequently violated in the line of contact that separates
Azerbaijan from its occupied territories.
Peace negotiations mediated by the Minsk Group of the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe since 1994 have failed to
bring a lasting settlement to the conflict.