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SECOND ARMENIAN SOLDIER KILLED IN BORDER CLASH WITH AZERBAIJAN
Agence France Presse
April 8, 2015 Wednesday 11:33 AM GMT
Yerevan, April 8 2015
Another Armenian soldier was killed this week as clashes intensified
between arch-foes Azerbaijan and Armenia, locked in a decades-long
dispute over Nagorny Karabakh region, Armenian officials said on
Wednesday.
"On April 7 (Tuesday), a soldier was shot dead on the Karabakh
frontline by an Azerbaijani sniper," the separatist region's defence
ministry said in a statement.
Another Armenian soldier had been killed on Tuesday in a clash on
the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The latest death takes the number of people reported killed on both
sides this year to 25.
Yerevan and Baku have been locked in a dispute over Azerbaijan's
Nagorny Karabakh region since a bloody war erupted in the early 1990s.
Yerevan-backed ethnic Armenian separatists seized control of Karabakh
and another seven adjacent districts of Azerbaijan during the conflict
that left some 30,000 dead.
Despite years of negotiations, the two sides have not signed a final
peace deal following a shaky 1994 truce, and Armenian-populated
Karabakh is still internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan.
However, Karabakh's ethnic-Azeri community -- around a quarter of
the population before the war -- was entirely driven out.
Baku, whose military spending exceeds Armenia's entire state budget,
has threatened to take back the territories by force if negotiations
fail to yield results.
Armenia, backed militarily by Russia, says it could crush any
offensive.
From: Baghdasarian
Agence France Presse
April 8, 2015 Wednesday 11:33 AM GMT
Yerevan, April 8 2015
Another Armenian soldier was killed this week as clashes intensified
between arch-foes Azerbaijan and Armenia, locked in a decades-long
dispute over Nagorny Karabakh region, Armenian officials said on
Wednesday.
"On April 7 (Tuesday), a soldier was shot dead on the Karabakh
frontline by an Azerbaijani sniper," the separatist region's defence
ministry said in a statement.
Another Armenian soldier had been killed on Tuesday in a clash on
the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The latest death takes the number of people reported killed on both
sides this year to 25.
Yerevan and Baku have been locked in a dispute over Azerbaijan's
Nagorny Karabakh region since a bloody war erupted in the early 1990s.
Yerevan-backed ethnic Armenian separatists seized control of Karabakh
and another seven adjacent districts of Azerbaijan during the conflict
that left some 30,000 dead.
Despite years of negotiations, the two sides have not signed a final
peace deal following a shaky 1994 truce, and Armenian-populated
Karabakh is still internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan.
However, Karabakh's ethnic-Azeri community -- around a quarter of
the population before the war -- was entirely driven out.
Baku, whose military spending exceeds Armenia's entire state budget,
has threatened to take back the territories by force if negotiations
fail to yield results.
Armenia, backed militarily by Russia, says it could crush any
offensive.
From: Baghdasarian