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    Armenian defense officials refuse to attend meeting in Azerbaijan, fearing
    safety

    AP Worldstream; May 30, 2006

    Armenian defense officials refused to attend a meeting of military
    chiefs from ex-Soviet republics in neighboring Azerbaijan, saying
    officials there could not guarantee their safety, an Armenian official
    said Tuesday.

    Azerbaijani officials could not assure organizers of the Commonwealth
    of Independent States defense ministers' meeting in Baku, which begins
    Wednesday, that the Armenians would be adequately protected, Defense
    Ministry spokesman Col. Seiran Shakhsuvaryan said.

    Azerbaijani officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
    Tensions between the two ex-Soviet republics remain high over
    Nagorno-Karabakh _ an enclave within Azerbaijan that has been
    controlled by ethnic Armenians since a war in the early 1990s that
    killed 30,000 people and drove about 1 million people from their
    homes. Sporadic border clashes regularly break out and a lack of
    resolution has hampered development throughout the strategic Caucasus
    region.

    Two years ago, during a NATO seminar in Hungary, an Azerbaijani
    military officer hacked an Armenian classmate to death with an axe.
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