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Azerbaijani Soldier Wounded Along Border With Separatist Region

June 18, 2012

Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry has said that troops from the separatist Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh region within Azerbaijan attacked Azeri positions and wounded an Azerbaijani soldier, who was subsequently hospitalized.

Earlier, Nagorno-Karabakh officials had accused Azerbaijani forces of violating the regional cease-fire about 1,000 times in the past week.

No response to the claim was immediately available from the Azerbaijani side.

The Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers met on June 18 in Paris for a new round of internationally mediated talks aimed at resolving the conflict.

The two sides agreed on a cease-fire in 1994.

Earlier in June, at least nine soldiers, from both sides, were reported killed in a series of incidents along the Azeri-Armenian border and the Nagorno-Karabakh border.

Based on reporting by Interfax, Trend, and Novosti-Armenia

Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-armenia-nagorno-karabakh/24617655.html

Copyright (c) 2012. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.