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    Azeri radio says Armenians re-deploy troops on border

    ANS Radio, Baku
    18 Jun 04

    The situation is relatively calm on the contact line of the armed
    forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan. However, Armenians are bringing
    troops and military hardware towards the Qazax direction of the
    border. Residents of Mazam village, which borders Armenia, came to
    this conclusion on the basis of the Armenian aggressors' intensified
    activities on the border. The locals say that the Armenian military
    have been re-deploying their positions over the past week and the
    enemy's positions are now closer to the village.

    Let us recall that four to five kilometres of the road to the villages
    of Mazam and Qusci Ayrim go through the front line. The residents of
    the villages are moving children to safer areas in order to protect
    them from Armenian aggression, as there is a great possibility of
    the road being blocked.

    The head of the district executive authorities admitted that the
    situation in Mazam village is tense. As the road to the village
    has been under constant fire from the enemy during the past week,
    movement to and from the village has been suspended.

    The head of the district executive authorities, Asad Orucov, said
    that the enemy used to fire at the village and the road. The OSCE
    Minsk Group's mission which carried out monitoring in the village
    on 12 June was informed about the situation which had developed in
    the last two weeks. However, the Armenian side ignored the OSCE's
    recommendations. Orucov said that a strong military contingent sent to
    defend the village is capable of repulsing the enemy. Thus it is out
    of the question that Armenians can besiege the village, end of quote.

    [Lider TV, Baku, in Azeri 0800 gmt, said Mazam village came under
    Armenian fire on Thursday night 18 June]
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