Azeris Suffered 25 Losses In Armed Attack -Expert

AZERIS SUFFERED 25 LOSSES IN ARMED ATTACK -EXPERT

tert.am
06.06.12

The Azerbaijani forces have suffered more than five losses in
their recent act of sabotage against Armenia, according to Artsrun
Hovhannisyan, a military expert.

At a news conference on Monday, Hovhannisyan said that yesterday’s
armed attack against the Amrenian positions actually left 25
Azerbaijani killed.

“It is known to all that the actual [toll] exceeds several times the
figures represented by the Azerbaijani side. We have learned from out
sources that they have 25 victims,” he said, denying the reports on
the death of five Azeri servicemen.

According to him, 10 deaths per one Armenian soldier is considered
quite normal for Azerbaijan.

“By resorting to provocation, they turn out to be aware that the
Armenian side is ready to resist, which means they are ready to lose
more servicemen,” he said.

Hovhannisyan said the problem is not only between Azerbaijan and
Nagorno-Karabakh or Armenia but also between Armenia and Turkey given
that the same saboteurs are also trained in Turkey.

“The acts of provocation are of subversive character, while it is
absolutely no news that those resorting to such steps are Turkish
resources, that very probably involve the Turkish side [in their
operations],” he said, considering the Turkish high military command’s
current visit to Baku not absolutely accidental.

The expert noted further that Azerbaijan’s reports on five victims
were intended for the US Secretary with the purpose of demonstrating
that Azerbaijan too can suffer losses.

S. Hasratyan: "azerbaijan Must Take Into Consideration The Bitter Ex

S. HASRATYAN: “AZERBAIJAN MUST TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE BITTER EXPERIENCE WHICH IT HAD IN THE PAST”

07.06.12, 13:15

“Duration and effectiveness of the military actions is decided not
by the announcements but in the field of battle”.

Speaker of the Artsakh Defense Army Senor Hasratyan announced about
this during the conversation with panorama.am. He was commenting on
the announcement by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces which announced that
Azerbaijani Army just needs 10 days to conquer Armenian liberated
forces which the enemy calls “occupied territories”.

S. Hasratyan also underlined that before making announcements the
leadership of Azerbaijani Armed Forces must take into consideration
the bitter experience which they had in the past.

http://times.am/?l=en&p=8144

La Turquie, Les Juifs Et Le Genocide Armenien

LA TURQUIE, LES JUIFS ET LE GENOCIDE ARMENIEN

Publie le : 07-06-2012

Info Collectif VAN – – L’Institut Zoryan (base
aux USA et au Canada) annonce la publication d’un livre de Rifat
Bali, chercheur renomme pour ses publications sur la communaute juive
turque. Intitule ” Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey
during the Multi-Party Period” (” Les citoyens modèles de l’Etat :
les Juifs de Turquie pendant la periode pluripartite “], cet ouvrage
revèle comment l’establishment turc faisait chanter les dirigeants
de la communaute juive, et par leur intermediaire, les organisations
juives aux Etats-Unis, afin de garantir leur soutien a la position
turque contre la campagne armenienne de reconnaissance du genocide.

Les diplomates turcs et les porte-paroles semi-officiels des politiques
turques ont menace Israël et les U.S.A, en indiquant que si le lobby
juif ne reussissait pas a empecher les initiatives des Armeniens
a l’etranger, la Turquie ne serait pas en mesure de garantir la
securite des citoyens juifs de Turquie. Le Collectif VAN vous propose
la traduction du communique de presse de l’Institut Zoryan.

Communique de presse – Institut Zoryan – 30 mai 2012

POUR DIFFUSION IMMEDAITE

Un nouveau livre sur la turcisation forcee des Juifs, leur combat
contre l’antisemitisme et le lobbying du leadership turco-juif contre
la reconnaissance du genocide armenien

Toronto – L’Institut Zoryan est heureux d’annoncer la traduction et
la publication du nouveau livre du celèbre auteur Rifat Bali, Model
Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party
Period (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rowman & Littlefield
Publishing Group, 2012). (” Les citoyens modèles de l’Etat : les Juifs
de Turquie pendant la periode pluripartite “] Ce livre fournit un
expose du traitement de la communaute juive en Turquie de 1950 a ce
jour, son combat contre l’antisemitisme, la lutte pour ses droits
constitutionnels et l’attitude de l’Etat turc et de la societe
vis-a-vis de ces problèmes.

Dans un article concernant l’edition turque, paru sur le site Armenian
Weekly, la journaliste turque Ayse Gunaysu, egalement membre depuis
1995 de la Commission contre le racisme et la discrimination de
l’Association des droits de l’homme de Turquie (branche d’Istanbul),
a qualifie le livre ” d’innovant, revelant des faits et des rapports
de première main qui illustrent clairement comment l’establishment
turc faisait chanter les dirigeants de la communaute juive, et par
leur intermediaire, les organisations juives aux Etats-Unis, afin
de garantir leur soutien a la position turque contre la campagne
armenienne de reconnaissance du genocide. Le livre offre egalement
un materiel riche sur la manière dont les diplomates turcs et les
porte-paroles semi-officiels des politiques turques, tandis qu’ils
poursuivaient leurs activites de lobbying, ont menace Israël et les
U.S.A, en indiquant que si le lobby juif ne reussissait pas a empecher
les initiatives des Armeniens a l’etranger, la Turquie ne serait pas
en mesure de garantir la securite des citoyens juifs de Turquie. C’est
une pratique courante pour les autorites turques de nier invariablement
ces menaces. Cependant, le travail studieux de Bali dans les archives
revèle des rapports de première main qui confirment ces allegations. ”

Expliquant la motivation pour ecrire ce livre, Bali declare :

Il y a un certain nombre de faits qui m’ont incite a entamer des
recherches sur l’histoire des Juifs dans la Republique Turque. Ils
peuvent tous etre resumes par le fait que j’etais fatigue de lire
et d’entendre ces discours favorables que repetaient sans fin
les dirigeants de la communaute juive de Turquie, ainsi que les
intellectuels, les politiciens et les historiens turcs. Ce meme
discours predominait egalement en dehors de la Turquie. Je voulais
decouvrir ce qu’il y avait vraiment derrière cette rhetorique.

Bali montre en details que malgre la tentative des responsables de la
communaute juive d’Istanbul d’entrer dans le moule du citoyen turc
“modèle” tel que defini par Kemal Ataturk, et independamment de la
politique gouvernementale officielle envers la communaute juive,
les attitudes antisemites de la population musulmane, majoritaire
dans la societe turque, etaient toujours presentes.

Le livre decrit comment, initialement, le gouvernement turc a
applique le meme traitement a la communaute juive, qui avait les
memes problèmes, craintes et reactions que les minorites armeniennes
et grecques pendant la periode du parti unique 1923-1949, comme
par exemple l’impôt sur le capital et la politique des bataillons
de travail. Au cours des deux premières decennies de la periode
pluripartite, elles ont subi le pogrom du 6 septembre 1955, la
revolution du 27 mai 1960 et le coup militaire de 1971. Les trois
minorites ont souffert de ces evenements critiques a niveau egal,
entrainant des morts, la perte de leurs proprietes et des emigrations
consequentes en Grèce, en Israël, en Europe et en Amerique du Nord.

Bali explique comment l’Etat turc a commence a modifier sa facon de
traiter ses citoyens juifs a la fin des annees 1960 et au debut des
annees 1970, en raison de trois evenements cruciaux survenus hors de
Turquie : la Guerre des Six Jours israelienne en 1967, l’invasion
turque de Chypre en 1974 et le mouvement pour la reconnaissance
internationale du genocide armenien. Il montre que le gouvernement turc
dans les annees 1970 a renverse sa politique d’interdiction faites
aux minorite d’avoir des liens avec des organisations exterieures,
en encourageant les Juifs de Turquie a se lier aux organisations
juives americaines, une fois qu’il a compris l’importance des groupes
de lobbying politiques juifs americains.

Depuis lors, la Turquie a adopte la politique d’utiliser le lobby juif
americain contre le lobby grec pour faire cesser l’embargo sur les
armes a Chypre et contre le lobby armenien pour pouvoir poursuivre sa
politique de negation du genocide. Bali decrit les efforts faits pour
eloigner la communaute juive americaine de la communaute armenienne
en faisant de la propagande comme quoi le genocide armenien est une
non-verite, ou qu’independamment de ce qu’il a pu arriver en 1915,
cela ne peut pas etre compare a l’holocauste juif et ne peut donc pas
etre qualifie de genocide, et que les Turcs ont ete très tolerants
et amicaux envers les Juifs depuis leur expulsion d’Espagne en 1492.

Bali demontre qu’avec cette nouvelle politique, les gouvernements turcs
successifs ont obtenu la cooperation des Juifs turcs pour convaincre
les groupes de lobbying juifs americains de soutenir activement
les mesures pro-turques, y compris combattre les resolutions sur le
genocide armenien au Congrès americain, exclure le genocide armenien
des Musees de l’Holocauste a Washington et a Los Angeles, interdire que
des articles sur le genocide armenien soient presentes aux conferences
israeliennes sur l’holocauste, interdire la diffusion de films lies
au genocide armenien aux Etats-Unis et en Israël, etc. La tactique
utilisee par les gouvernements turcs a inclus des aides financières,
des concessions economiques et autres privilèges, mais contenait
aussi des menaces voilees sur le fait que le manque de cooperation du
lobby juif, de l’Etat d’Israël, ou des leaders turco-juifs mettrait
en danger le bien-etre economique et la securite des Juifs de Turquie.

Quand on lui demande quels pourraient etre les effets possibles de
ses recherches, Bali repond :

Je ne crois pas que le livre aura un impact negatif sur les
relations israelo-turques et/ou turco-juives. La realpolitik et les
preoccupations strategiques dominent toujours et embellissent meme
l’histoire passee. Cependant, j’espère que le public anglophone
aura enfin l’occasion de lire la “reelle” histoire des relations
turco-juives au lieu d’une histoire embellie.

En documentant la manipulation de l’Etat turc sur sa minorite
juive vulnerable et sa connivence, ce livre est un cas d’etude de
grande valeur sur la facon dont la realpolitik deforme la verite en
politique interieure et dans les relations avec l’etranger et comment
la contrainte des puissants contribue a la violation collective des
droits de l’homme. Il sera interessant tant pour les universitaires et
les etudiants des minorites non-musulmanes en Turquie, les lobbyistes
politiques en Amerique, les decideurs israeliens, ainsi que pour les
communautes juives, grecques et armeniennes du monde entier.

Rifat N. Bali, ne en 1948 a Istanbul, est un chercheur
independant specialiste de l’histoire des Juifs turcs et membre
associe du Centre Alberto-Benveniste des etudes sefarades et de
l’histoire socioculturelle des Juifs (Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes/CNRS/Universite Paris-Sorbonne). Il est le laureat du Prix de
la Recherche Alberto Benveniste en 2009 pour ses publications sur la
communaute juive turque.

L’Institut Zoryan est l’organisation mère de l’Institut International
pour les etudes sur le genocide et les droits de l’homme, qui propose
un programme universitaire annuel reconnu sur ce sujet et qui est
coediteur de ” Genocide Studies and Prevention : An International
Journal ” en partenariat avec l’Association internationale des
chercheurs sur le genocide et les presses de l’Universite de Toronto.

C’est le premier centre international a but non lucratif consacre a
la recherche et a la documentation de questions contemporaines avec
comme sujet central le genocide, la diaspora et l’Armenie. Pour plus
d’informations, veuillez contacter l’Institut Zoryan par courrier
electronique a : [email protected] ou telephonez au : 00 1/
416-250-9807.

DATE : 30 mai 2012 CONTACT : Catherine Minogue TEL : 00 1/ 416-250-9807

©Traduction de l’anglais C.Gardon pour le Collectif VAN – 31 mai 2012 –
07:05 –

Lire aussi :

Minorites de Turquie : un Juif d’Istanbul parle

Genocide armenien: le derapage de Pierre Nora (I)

Genocide armenien: le derapage de Pierre Nora -II

Badinter : la confusion des arguments

La Turquie, les Juifs et l’Holocauste

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La Cour Constitutionnelle Rejette L’Appel De L’Opposition

LA COUR CONSTITUTIONNELLE REJETTE L’APPEL DE L’OPPOSITION
Stephane

armenews.com
jeudi 7 juin 2012

La Cour Constitutionnelle a soutenu les resultats officiels des
dernières elections parlementaires d’Armenie, rejetant un appel du
Congrès National Armenien (HAK).

Dans un long verdict lu a haute voix par son president, Gagik
Harutiunian, la cour a considere que la Commission electorale Centrale
(CEC) avait eu raison de declarer le parti Republicain du President
Serge Sarkissian (HHK) vainqueur des elections du 6 mai. Il a dit
que l’HAK avait echoue a prouver que les resultats avaient ete fausses.

La Cour Constitutionnelle a ecarte la plainte du HAK soutenant que les
observateurs locaux et etrangers ont loue l’environnement politique
en Armenie et, particulièrement la couverture par les journalistes
de la campagne electorale. Elle a aussi soutenu que l’HAK ne s’est
pas formellement plaint de la participation des fonctionnaires de
l’Etat dans la periode d’avant la campagne.

Les neuf juges ont pointe que la CEC et les commissions electorales
de niveau inferieur ont recu des plaintes formelles concernant
seulement une fraction des 2000 bureaux de vote. Et il y a eu peu de
temoignage de vote multiple presume par le HAK et d’autres groupes
de l’opposition.

” Cette decision etait totalement previsible ” a declare Levon
Zurabian, un leader du HAK. ” Après tout, cette fraude a ete organise
par l’etat, dont la Cour Constitutionnelle est une partie “.

8 Killed In Renewed Fighting On Armenia-Azerbaijan Border

8 KILLED IN RENEWED FIGHTING ON ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN BORDER
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

New York Times

June 5 2012

MOSCOW – At least eight soldiers have been killed in two days of
renewed fighting this week along the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan,
stirring tensions just as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
is visiting the region.

Armenia and Azerbaijan, former Soviet republics in the South Caucasus,
have been at war over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh for
more than 20 years.

The Azeri Defense Ministry said five of its soldiers were killed in
fighting on Tuesday morning on the border near Gazakh. Armenia said
three of its soldiers were killed in nearby villages on Monday.

Each nation blamed the other for the outbreak of violence.

Azerbaijan said Armenian soldiers opened fire on Tuesday, while Armenia
said its forces had intercepted a contingent of Azeri soldiers trying
to cross the border. “The group was discovered and neutralized,”
the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Even before the added deaths on Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton, who is making
a diplomatic swing through Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan this week,
expressed concern about the violence.

“The president and I had a serious discussion of Nagorno-Karabakh,
including the most recent incidents along the front lines,” Mrs.

Clinton said after meeting with President Serzh Sarkisian of Armenia
in Yerevan, the capital.

“While I had only just learned of these incidents, I am very concerned
about the danger of escalation of tensions and the senseless deaths of
young soldiers and innocent civilians,” said Mrs. Clinton, according
to a State Department transcript. “The use of force will not resolve
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and therefore force must not be used.

And we are calling on everyone to renounce force as well as refraining
from violence.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/world/europe/armenia-azerbaijan-border-fighting-leaves-soldiers-dead.html

Baku Accuses Armenia Of Killing 5 Azeri Soldiers

BAKU ACCUSES ARMENIA OF KILLING 5 AZERI SOLDIERS

Reuters

June 5 2012

(Reuters) – Azerbaijan accused arch rival Armenia on Tuesday of
killing five Azeri soldiers near their border in a second day of
violence that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned could
turn into a broader regional conflict.

A day earlier, three Armenian soldiers were killed and several soldiers
on both sides wounded in a border skirmish.

Tuesday’s skirmish occurred around 06:30 a.m. (0130 GMT). Another
Azeri soldier died in a separate clash.

“A group of saboteurs from Armenia undertook an attempt to infiltrate
a position of the Azeri armed forces … In the course of battle
four Azeri soldiers died,” Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry said in
a statement.

Clinton, who visited Armenia on Monday, voiced concern that the
violence could lead to a “broader conflict”. She is due to make a
half-day trip to Muslim, oil-producing Azerbaijan on Wednesday.

Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov told journalists he would
discuss the violence with Armenia’s foreign minister at a meeting in
Paris on June 18.

War between ethnic Azeris and Armenians erupted in 1991 over the
mostly Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region, which broke away from Muslim
Azerbaijan with the backing of Christian Armenia as the Soviet Union
collapsed.

The latest incidents, however, took place more than 400 kms (250 miles)
from Nagorno-Karabakh, where sporadic violence still flares along a
ceasefire line negotiated in 1994.

Some 30,000 people were killed in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and
about 1 million became refugees, the majority in Azerbaijan.

In the last few years there have been skirmishes around the
Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire line and the two countries’ border, raising
fears of a return to full-blown conflict in the South Caucasus,
where vital oil and natural gas flow from the Caspian region to Europe.

Efforts to reach a permanent settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict have failed, despite mediation led by France, Russia and the
United States. (Reporting By Lada Yevgrashina; Writing by Thomas Grove;
Editing by Tim Pearce)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/azerbaijan-armenia-idUSL5E8H59M520120605

Clinton To Discuss In Yerevan Karabakh Conflict Settlement

CLINTON TO DISCUSS IN YEREVAN KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

ITAR-TASS
June 4, 2012 Monday 10:41 AM GMT+4
Russia

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is arriving in Yerevan on
a visit on Monday will discuss with the Armenian leadership issues
related to the strengthening of partnership with the republic and
the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh peace settlement. She will meet
with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian, the country’s Foreign Ministry reported. Nalbandian and
Clinton will tell reporters about the results of their talks at a
press conference to be held at the presidential palace in the evening.

“The agenda of the forthcoming negotiations includes a wide range
of issues related to the development and deepening of friendly
partnership between Armenia and the United States, the process of
peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict,” the Foreign Ministry
specified. “The sides will discuss regional and international issues
of mutual interest.”

The United States acts as a mediator in negotiations on the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, being co-chair of the Minsk Group
of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),
along with Russia and France. Washington also tries to promote the
normalisation of relations between Armenia and Turkey, which have no
diplomatic ties.

During the years after the declaration of independence, the United
States has provided to the republic assistance to a total worth of
over 2 billion US dollars, US Ambassador to Yerevan John Heffern said
in his video blog. According to him, the United States is among the
largest external donors providing assistance to Armenia.

The diplomat stressed that over the years, the sphere of US assistance
to Armenia has changed as its needs have changed: the amount of
humanitarian aid has been reduced and long-term programs of assistance
to the republic to help it expand opportunities have been increased.

The current visit of the US secretary of state to Armenia is the
third in history. In 1992, James Baker visited the country, and
Hillary Rodham Clinton – in 2010.

Clinton’s trip to Transcaucasia will be held within the framework of
her European tour, which began on May 31 and will end on June 7. The
US secretary of state has already visited Denmark, Norway and Sweden;
Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan will be next. Turkey will be the last
leg of her tour.

Baku: Defense Ministry: Attack Of Armenian Army In Frontline Repulse

DEFENSE MINISTRY: ATTACK OF ARMENIAN ARMY IN FRONTLINE REPULSED, 5 AZERBAIJANI SOLDIERS KILLED

APA
June 5 2012
Azerbaijan

Baku – APA. The escalation of tensions is observed in the frontline.

Press service of the Defense Ministry told APA that the units of
the Armenian army fired on positions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces
from the occupied areas in nameless heights and near Tapgaragoyunlu
village of Azerbaijan’s Goranboy region at 16.00-16.20 and 24.40-23.50,
at 23.20-23.30, 23.35-23.40, nameless heights and Ashagi Veysalli,
Garakhanbeyli, Ashagi Abdulrahmanli, Gorgan and Ashagi Seyidahmadli
villages of Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli region on June 5 at 00.20-00.30,
02.45-02.50, 02.55-03.10, 05.10-05.15, from positions situated
in nameless heights of Azerbaijan’s Gazakh region at 02.55-03.10,
from positions situated in nameless heights of Azerbaijan’s Khojavend
region at 03.10-03.20, from positions situated near Mehdili village of
Azerbaijan’s Jabrayil region at 03.00-03.10, from positions situated
near Javahirli and Yusifjanli villages of Azerbaijan’s Aghdam region
at 05.00-05.20.

On June 5, though the Armenian subversive group attempted to enter
into the positions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces situated in Ashagi
Askipara village of Gazakh region, the enemy incurred losses and was
forced to withdraw. Four servicemen of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces
were killed during the battle.

One more soldier died as a result of fire opened from nameless heights
in Gazakh region.

Armenians Kill Five Azeri Troops In Border Clash

ARMENIANS KILL FIVE AZERI TROOPS IN BORDER CLASH

Agence France Presse
June 5 2012

BAKU – Armenian forces killed five Azerbaijani soldiers in a border
clash Tuesday, in a new flaring of tensions as US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton visits the volatile Caucasus region.

The Azerbaijani defence ministry said fighting broke out when “a
group of Armenian saboteurs made an attempt to penetrate the military
positions of the national army” in the country’s north-west — the
second reported outbreak of deadly violence along the border between
the ex-Soviet enemies this week.

“During the fight, four soldiers of the Azerbaijani armed forces were
killed and another died as a result of the Armenians opening fire,”
the ministry said in a statement.

Armenia however blamed Azerbaijan for causing the violence, saying
that “a subversive group of 15 to 20 people attempted to infiltrate
Armenian territory.

“Thanks to the vigilance of the Armenian servicemen, the group was
discovered and neutralised. Five were killed and many others wounded
from the Azerbaijani side,” the Armenian defence ministry said in a
statement, adding that none of its troops were injured.

On Monday, Armenia alleged that Azerbaijani forces had killed three of
its soldiers and wounded six more when an attempted military incursion
ended in a firefight on the border, a report Baku denied.

Azerbaijan and Armenia are locked in a long-running conflict over the
territory of Nagorny Karabakh, where they fought a war in the 1990s
that killed some 30,000 people.

Unusually, this week’s clashes erupted well to the north of the
disputed region.

According to Azerbaijan’s defence ministry, Tuesday’s violence hit
the region west of the Azerbaijani town of Gazakh. The deadly clashes
on Monday also took place nearby.

Visiting Yerevan on Monday, Clinton said she was concerned by the
rising tensions and warned Armenia and Azerbaijan not to settle their
conflict by force.

“I am very concerned about the danger of escalation of tensions
and the senseless deaths of young soldiers and innocent civilians,”
she said after Monday’s violence.

“The use of force will not resolve the Nagorny Karabakh conflict and
therefore force must not be used.”

The Karabakh war saw Armenia-backed separatists seize the mountainous
enclave from Azerbaijan amid a bitter struggle that caused hundreds
of thousands of people to flee their homes in both countries.

Despite years of negotiations since the 1994 ceasefire, the two sides
have not yet signed a final peace deal and there are still frequent
exchanges of gunfire along the front line.

Azerbaijan has threatened to use force to win back Karabakh if peace
talks fail to yield satisfactory results, but Armenia has warned of
large-scale retaliation against any military action.

On Wednesday Clinton is due to visit Baku, where officials said that
finding a resolution to the Karabakh conflict would be the main topic
of discussion.

“We expect good results from the meeting with Clinton,” Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists.

Mammadyarov blamed Yerevan for thwarting progress toward a peace deal,
saying that “sometimes we cannot understand the Armenian side’s logic”.

The latest round of talks in Russia in January ended with promises
to speed up the process but failed to make any visible steps toward
signing a “basic principles” roadmap agreement, seen as key to any
settlement.

Azeris Killed In Deadliest Clash With Armenia Amid Clinton Visit

AZERIS KILLED IN DEADLIEST CLASH WITH ARMENIA AMID CLINTON VISIT
By Zulfugar Agayev

Bloomberg

June 5 2012

Five Azeri soldiers were killed in a border clash with Armenian
soldiers in the deadliest incident between the neighbors in four
years as visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of
risks of a regional conflict.

The servicemen were killed while repelling an attack by an Armenian
~Ssaboteur~T squad in the western Qazax district early today, Teymur
Abdullayev, a spokesman for the Azeri Defense Ministry, said by phone.

Armenia~Rs Defense Ministry said three soldiers were killed yesterday
by an ~Sinvading~T Azeri group.

Energy-rich Azerbaijan fought a war with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh,
a mostly ethnic Armenian-populated region that broke free of Baku~Rs
control after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in
1991. Clinton, who is visiting the South Caucasus region this week,
said yesterday that sporadic violence along the militarized cease-fire
line threatens to turn into a broader conflict.

~SI am very concerned about the danger of escalation of tensions and
the senseless deaths of young soldiers and innocent civilians,~T
Clinton said at a joint briefing with her Armenian counterpart,
Eduard Nalbandian, in the capital, Yerevan. ~SThe use of force will
not resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and therefore force must
not be used.~T

The territory remains a potential flash point in a region where Russia
fought a five-day war with Georgia in 2008 after separatist tensions
flared up. While the hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan largely
ended after a Russia-brokered cease-fire in 1994, the countries have
failed to reach a peace agreement.

Clinton is also visiting Georgia and Azerbaijan during her trip this
week. Companies led by London-based BP Plc (BP/) have invested about
$35 billion in Azerbaijan~Rs oil and gas fields since 1991.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-05/azeris-killed-in-deadliest-clash-with-armenia-amid-clinton-visit.html