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Azerbaijan says dozens dead as ICG warns over Karabakh tensions

Azerbaijan says dozens dead as ICG warns over Karabakh tensions
04.02.2014 13:00

Azerbaijan said its troops killed dozens of Armenians near Nagorno-Karabakh in the past two weeks as the International Crisis Group warned of an “unprecedented” escalation of tensions.

“Armenian losses ran into dozens,” Vaqif Dargahli, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, said, adding two Azeris were also killed.

Nagorno-Karabakh’s "defense ministry" denied the claim, saying two Armenians and eight Azeris were killed.

The Brussels-based International Crisis Group said “the nature of reported clashes and ominous statements by some officials mark an escalation unprecedented in recent years.”

 Armenians captured Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave about the size of Rhode Island, and seven adjacent districts from Azerbaijan in a war after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. More than 30,000 people were killed and a million displaced before Russia brokered a cease-fire in 1994.

Azerbaijan, which in December signed $45 billion of contracts with a BP Plc-led group to pipe natural gas to Europe, has repeatedly threatened to use force to regain control of the territory should peace efforts fail.

A further escalation will adversely affect peace talks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said last week, calling for restraint.

ANN.Az

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