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Azerbaijan Says Soldier Killed Near Karabakh


(RFE/RL) January 19, 2007 -- Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry says Armenian forces shot dead an Azerbaijani soldier near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region


Armenia's Defense Ministry denies the charge.


The Armenian side said its soldiers were preserving the cease-fire agreement in the area. Azerbaijan does not recognize the independence of the predominantly ethnic-Armenian territory, which has been under dispute since a six-year conflict that ended with a 1994 cease-fire.


(AP)

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Ethnic Armenians displaced by fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1980s (Photolur)

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