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  • Azeri soldier reported killed in ceasefire breach

    Agence France Presse -- English
    March 2, 2005 Wednesday 5:58 PM GMT

    Azeri soldier reported killed in ceasefire breach

    BAKU


    One Azeri soldier was killed and one wounded in a ceasefire breach
    along the tense line dividing Azerbaijan and Armenian-occupied
    territory, Azeri television channels reported Wednesday.

    "One soldier was killed and another hospitalized in the aftermath of
    a shootout with Armenian forces," ANS television said in an evening
    news bulletin.

    Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a stalemate over the
    ethnic Armenian enclave Nagorno Karabakh ever since they ended
    large-scale hostilities with an uneasy ceasefire agreement in 1994.

    Armenia controls Karabakh and seven surrounding regions equal to
    roughly 14 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized
    territory.

    Last year six people lost their lives in ceasefire breaches while an
    additional 13 people were killed and 21 injured on landmines around
    Karabakh.
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