“Turkey supports the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan,” said Turkish Parliament Deputy Speaker Sureyya Sadi Bilgic at the OSCE PA President at the Parliamentary Conference on Regional Security and Cooperation and the founding conference of the “Baku Parliamentary Platform for Dialogue and Cooperation”. Vice-speaker of the Turkish …
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THE INFLUENCE OF SYRIAN TALKS ON THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
The intra-Syrian talks in Astana on January 23 resulted from active diplomatic efforts by Russia, Turkey and Iran. Currently the three are synchronizing their diplomacy and military operations in the Syrian conflict. Despite the tangled web of disagreements between external and internal actors, the regional powers know that resolving the …
Read More »“The Lapshin Case: A Red Line in Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy” – Fuad Chiragov
The arrest of a travel-blogger Alexander Lapshin, a citizen of Russia, Israel and Ukraine, by Belarusian authorities and his extradition to Azerbaijan (1news.az, February 7) is an interesting case for a number of reasons, and particularly in the context of the unresolved Karabakh conflict. His arrest mobilized influential Armenian expatriate …
Read More »RESTORATION OF THE STATE INDEPENDENCE IN NORTH AZERBAIJAN:THE STRUGGLE FOR REINFORCEMENT OF STATEHOOD
Today Azerbaijan is fully integrating to the world by following a successful foreign and domestic political course. However, the industrious people of Azerbaijan are going through the most difficult, but honorable period of their history. This period is generally defined as a transitional phase. All the civilized nations and developed …
Read More »After Kosovo: Europe’s Other Break-Away Regions, by Carl Augustsson
A few years ago, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. Kosovo’s independence has still not been fully recognized by all of the European Union’s member states. As a result, Kosovo’s current status is uncertain. Kosovo is not, however, the only place in Europe that would like to become independent[1] from …
Read More »Chronicle of Khojaly Tragedy
Khojaly was under blockade since October, 1991. On October, 30 the ground traffic was cut off and helicopter was the only way of transportation. The last civilian helicopter arrived in Khojaly on January, 28 and after civilian helicopter was brought down over Shusha city, as a result of which 40 …
Read More »Khojaly Genocide
Over the night from February 25 to 26, 1992 Armenian armed forces implemented the capture of the Khojaly city with support of hard equipment and the personnel of the infantry guards regiment #366 of former Soviet Union. The massed firing with using artillery weapon, hard military equipment, which was began …
Read More »Damage caused to agriculture of Nagorny Karabakh
The occupied areas of Nagorny Karabakh represented a large agricultural region within Azerbaijan. Suitable intermountain and foothill plains, plateaus and the occupied parts of the Minor Caucasus create the favorable conditions for development of plant-growing and cattle-breading fields. Grain-growing, fodder production, vine-growing, tobacco-growing, potato-growing, cotton-growing, dairy farming and meat farming, …
Read More »Damages to industrial, housing and social objects as a result of Armenian agression
The decree concerning the development of productive forces in the mountainous regions, including Nagorny Karabakh autonomous area was passed before the beginning Nagorny Karabakh conflict. There were intensive construction works going on in Nagorny Karabakh and the occupied regions at time of the beginning of the conflict. Large-scale enterprises were …
Read More »Socio-psychological and economical damages to the population of Azerbaijan as a result of Armenian aggression
The entire Azeri population of 250,000 was forced to leave 22 regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan and set their hopes on Azerbaijan at the first stages of the conflict in 1988-1989. In the process of uring these resettlement years’ 410 Azeri people were subjected to tortures by the Armenians …
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