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    NAGORNO-KARABAKH SAYS HAS KILLED "ABOUT SEVEN" AZERI SOLDIERS

    Interfax
    Nov 28 2011
    Russia

    Azerbaijan's disputed Armenian-speaking enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh
    said on Saturday that its armed forces had killed "about seven"
    Azeri servicemen in retaliation for the death of two Nagorno-Karabakh
    soldiers allegedly killed by Azeri snipers.

    "In response to the death of two soldiers of the Defense Army of the
    Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Nagorno-Karabakh side has resorted
    to punitive measures, as it warned. According to the reconnaissance
    service of the Defense Army of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh,
    about seven members of the Azeri armed forces were killed and some were
    wounded as a result of pre-emptive measures in the period from November
    20 to November 25," The enclave's defense ministry told Interfax.

    The ministry accused Azerbaijan of about 270 violations of the
    ceasefire for the past week.

    Interfax has not yet been able to obtain comments from Azeri
    authorities.

    Meanwhile, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan warned on Saturday that
    "there will be no peace" on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan
    for as long as the Nagorno-Karabakh problem remains unsolved.

    "But we don't want this restive situation to be the cause of human
    deaths," Sargsyan told a briefing in Armenia's Gegharkunik province.

    He blamed the deaths of both Armenian and Azeri soldiers on Azerbaijan.

    Aren Simonian and Migran Margarian, 19-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh
    soldiers, were reportedly killed by sniper fire from Azerbaijan on
    November 19-20.

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