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Armenia Armenia: Child Soldier Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There have been reports of the forced recruitment of refugee children from Azerbaijan into the Armenian army despite legal minimum age requirements of 18 for both compulsory and voluntary recruitment. The Committee on the Rights of the Child meeting in January 2000 recommended that the government take special protection measures for children affected by armed conflict and refrain from conscripting children into its armed forces. June 12, 2001 Armenia: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in conflict over the Nagorny-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan from 1988 to 1994. Nagorny-Karabakh is an autonomous region of western Azerbaijan, but the majority of the inhabitants are Armenian. Mines were used by all sides in the conflict. A cease-fire agreement was signed in May 1994, but negotiations for a final peace settlement are on-going under the auspices of the OSCE. Landmines and demining are reportedly on the agenda of the peace negotiations.198 (See also reports on Azerbaijan and Nagorny-Karabakh.) August 1, 2000
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