ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN BORDER CLASH KILLS ONE: YEREVAN

Agence France Presse
October 22, 2013 Tuesday 4:15 PM GMT

YEREVAN, Oct 22 2013

Azerbaijani forces on Tuesday killed an Armenian soldier and injured
three more along the volatile border between the two arch-enemies,
the Armenian government said.

Garik Pogosyan, 19, was killed when the convoy he was in came under
fire on a road that runs along the border, the defence ministry said
in a statement.

Three other soldiers in the convoy were wounded, it, adding: “This
criminal step by the enemy will not go unanswered and those behind
it will be held responsible.”

Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a festering decades-long feud
over the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh.

Armenia-backed separatists seized Nagorny Karabakh from Azerbaijan
in a war that killed 30,000 people in the 1990s.

Despite years of negotiations since a 1994 ceasefire, the two sides
have still not signed a peace deal.

Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the disputed region by force
if negotiations do not yield results, while Armenia has vowed to
retaliate against any military action

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