Karabakh peace conditional on ‘overthrow of Armenian regime’

An Azerbaijani official has said that progress cannot be made on a Karabakh peace deal until the “fascist regime in Armenia is overthrown”.

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov, who is also chairman of Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Refugees and Displaced Persons, made the comments on Friday during discussions of a book by the head of the Presidential Administration, Academician Ramiz Mehdiyev, “Goris 2010: Theater of the Absurd”. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Azerbaijan Press, International Press No Comments » May 2011

Russian, US, French leaders call for Karabakh peace

The presidents of Russia, France and the USA have issued a statement on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

The three countries co-chair the OSCE Minsk Group, the international body seeking a settlement to the conflict.

The presidents, Dmitriy Medvedev, Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama, issued the statement at the G8 summit in Normandy on Thursday, APA reported. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Azerbaijan Press, International Press No Comments » May 2011

Sarkozy concerned about Karabakh delays

French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, who is on a three-day visit to France, home to one of Europe’s largest Armenian communities. Sarkozy expresses concern about lagging diplomacy between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, his office says

French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed concern Wednesday about lagging diplomacy between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, his office said.

Sarkozy laid out his concerns during a lunch meeting in Paris with Armenian President Serge Sarkisian, and urged both sides to make “the necessary efforts and compromises,” a French presidential spokesman said.

The French leader said he was concerned that a diplomatic process initiated about 18 months ago was losing steam, the spokesman said on condition of anonymity, citing government policy. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press, Turkish Press No Comments » March 2010

Armenian parliament’s speaker: Armenia not to debate protocols until Turkish parliament ratifies them

The National Assembly of Armenia (parliament) will not discuss the protocols on normalization of relations with Turkey unless they are ratified by Turkish parliament, Armenian parliament’s Speaker Ovik Abrahamyan said.

“Attempts to link Karabakh conflict settlement process with normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations are ungrounded and unacceptable,” Hovik Abrahamyan said when commenting on yesterday’s statement by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press, Turkish Press No Comments » December 2009

Sarkozy-Aliyev meeting discusses energy, Karabakh

French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev in Paris on Wednesday.

In a written statement, the French presidency said the leaders had agreed to expand bilateral relations and trade volume between the two countries and expressed their wish to develop a “strategic partnership.”

France said it wants to develop economic relations with Azerbaijan, including those in the field of energy, such as oil and natural gas. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press, Turkish Press No Comments » December 2009

Torrent of bitterness on the Turkey-Armenia border

There is more than the River Araxe separating the villages of Halikislak in Turkey and Bagaran in Armenia — a sealed border and a torrent of animosity divides their countries.

The 300 people in Halikislak and 700 in Bagaran are never allowed to meet. But hopes of an end to the isolation have been raised on both sides by an accord announced this week by the governments of Armenia and Turkey to move to end their century of hostility.

Memories of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire run deep between the countries even though the villages either side of the river have much in common. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press No Comments » April 2009

Third Armenian-Azerbaijani public peacekeeping forum to be held in Vienna

International Alert organization is organizing the third Armenian-Azerbaijani public peacekeeping forum for support of the peaceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict to be held in Vienna on March 24-27.

 The topic of the forum “Security: Challenges and opportunities, and mechanisms to build trust”. The aim of the forum is to create an area of a dialogue between experts and public representatives of all conflict parties on the issues of the peaceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: Azerbaijan Press, International Press No Comments » March 2009

Ethnic War in the Caucasus Finds New Depths of Carnage

By Francis X.Clines, New York Times, March 8 1992

As Hadjayev Hakhverdy washes the corpses of gunshot children and mutiliated adults here at the valley mosque, all the despair and defeat of Azerbaijan seems at hand in his ministrations after four years of undeclared war with Armenia over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

“I have cleaned 200 since Feb. 26,” said the mosque worker, aghast as he wrapped for burial another decapitated male corpse fresh from the war between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, which appears to be setting new standards for carnage and vendetta. “Some are so broken, but we must bury them.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press, Khojaly No Comments » February 2009

Editorial: Echoes of an oil boom

Azerbaijan: Where Russia, Iran and the West meet
Opinion: Editorials & Letters: Story

Vice President Dick Cheney visited Azerbaijan last October, and the consul general for Azerbaijan’s new consulate in Los Angeles visited Eugene earlier this month. The two events are connected: Both are a result of the oil boom in the Caspian Sea region, which has Azerbaijan at its center.

Azerbaijan is friendly toward the United States, and the United States needs all the friends it can get in that part of the world. As Cheney found, however, Azerbaijan’s friendliness extends only so far.

Cheney hoped to secure a commitment for a pipeline that would transport natural gas from the Caspian region to the West, bypassing Russia. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, wary of alienating neighboring Russia, would make no such commitment. Cheney responded by skipping a reception in his honor. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press No Comments » February 2009

Azerbaijan Seeking Justice For Khojaly Massacre

The Azerbaijani government said it is still trying to bring to justice those responsible for the events of the Khojaly massacre, as the 17th anniversary was marked on February 26.

Khojaly is a small Azerbaijani town in which hundreds of people, including many civilians, were killed by ethnic Armenian forces on February 25-26 during the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1992.

Azerbaijani Deputy Military Prosecutor Ilham Mammadov told RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service that the arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic last summer “gave hope that the international justice mechanisms could also be used in respect to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by admin Posted in: International Press, Khojaly No Comments » February 2009

« Previous Entries