Article: Presidential Bulletin (Daily News Briefs: JUN 22, 2004).

AZERBAIJAN

RECENT BORDER SHOOTOUTS ACCIDENTAL - AZERBAIJAN

Azerbaijan has denied allegations that increasingly frequent shootouts on its border with Armenia are the result of either countries' policy.

"These events are accidental. I do not think this is some kind of far-sighted work or the element of some plan," Azerbaijani presidential chief-of-staff Ramiz Mekhtiyev told journalists.

The Defense Ministry has already issued a statement to this effect, he said.

At least one Azerbaijani officer has been killed and several others injured in border shootouts over the past few days.

The motives behind the frequent ...

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