Ethnic Armenian Forces End Military Exercises in Karabakh
April 20, 2006
The Nagorno-Karabakh army in training, 2005 (Photolur)
About 1,500 soldiers took part in the exercises, which took place mainly around the central Agdam region. The area is near the so-called Line of Control that separates ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
The drills were observed by the defense minister and chief of general staff from Armenia.
Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan but is populated mostly by ethnic Armenians. Clashes regularly break out between the two sides.
At least 30,000 people have been killed and 1 million displaced during six years of open conflict that ended with a cease-fire in 1994.
(AP)