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Armenian and Azerbaijan troops exchange fire, two dead
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 06 - 10 - 2011

AlQa'dah 8, 1432, Oct 6, 2011, SPA -- Two Azerbaijan soldiers died on Thursday in an
exchange of fire with Armenian troops, dpa quoted the Interfax news agency
as reporting.
The fighting took place along a ceasefire line established between
the two countries after a war ending in 1994 over the ethnic Armenian
enclave Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan Defence Ministry spokesman Teymur Abdullaev was quoted
as saying Azerbaijan forces opened fire on Armenian troops that were
violating the ceasefire line at several locations.
A "intense" firefight followed with both sides suffering
casualties, he said, according to the Azerbaijan news agency apa.
The Armenian Panorama news agency said the combat took place on
neutral territory dividing the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave from
Azerbaijan's central Tetersk district.
The Thursday gun battle came as French Prime Minister Nicolas
Sarkozy was scheduled to travel through the Caucasus region for a
total three days of state visits first to Armenia, and followed by
Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Sarkozy in past remarks has called on Yerevan and Baku to lay
aside their hostility over Nagorno-Karabakh, citing Franco-German
rapprochment after World War II as a possible example to follow.
The French leader was arriving in the wake of a Wednesday shooting
in an Armenian-controlled village near the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire
line, where two Armenian soldiers were wounded by a sniper firing
from the Azerbaijan side, the report said.
The Armenia-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region and its borders
with surrounding Azerbaijan are generally tense and individual shots
fired across the ceasefire line occur regularly. Pitched firefights
are rare.


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