Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry says that two of its soldiers have been killed in an exchange of gunfire with Armenian troops near disputed the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Ethnic Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan seized the predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s that left some 30,000 dead.
The region remains tense and there are regular exchanges of gunfire along the cease-fire line established in 1994.
The October 5 clash came as French President Nicolas Sarkozy begins a visit to the South Caucasus region, arriving in Armenia today before traveling to Azerbaijan and Georgia on October 7.
compiled from agency reports
Ethnic Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan seized the predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s that left some 30,000 dead.
The region remains tense and there are regular exchanges of gunfire along the cease-fire line established in 1994.
The October 5 clash came as French President Nicolas Sarkozy begins a visit to the South Caucasus region, arriving in Armenia today before traveling to Azerbaijan and Georgia on October 7.
compiled from agency reports