Author: Emil Lazarian

US military, NATO join forces to stabilize Caucasus
By Brian Whitmore, Globe Correspondent | May 19, 2004
Boston Globe, MA
May 19 2004
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — US Army Colonel Michael Anderson
has Georgia on his mind. He spends a lot of time thinking about
Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well.
Plagued by ethnic conflicts, political instability, organized crime,
and porous borders, the volatile South Caucasus region has long been
viewed by Western officials as a hotbed of chaos and of instability
in Europe’s backyard.
The US military and key NATO allies are now laying the groundwork for
an unprecedented engagement in the region that will include coordinated
military and humanitarian assistance, education, and training aimed
at eventually bringing these troubled nations and their armed forces
into Europe’s mainstream.
“We want these nations to ultimately be able to stand on their own
and to be secure and stable states,” said Anderson, the US military’s
European Command point man for policy in the Caucasus.
The emerging initiative in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan is part
of a focus on what military commanders call “an arc of instability”
ranging from the Caucasus through the Middle East to the Gulf of
Guinea in West Africa. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, US armed
forces worldwide have been taking steps to redirect their resources
to fight the war on terrorism more effectively.
Officials at the US European Command say that since they do not
anticipate a major war in their area of responsibility in the near
future, they are focusing on preventing conflicts on and beyond the
continent’s hinterlands before they become full-blown security crises.
In the South Caucasus, as well as in North Africa, US military
officials say they are seeking to use “the prudent application of
soft power” — gaining access and influence in these regions by
exposing nations there to Western thinking and values — to advance
the interests of the United States and its allies.
“We are applying a regional, cooperative approach . . . helping
nations help themselves,” Air Force General Charles Wald, deputy
commander of US forces in Europe, said in a statement.
At a two-day conference this month at the George C. Marshall European
Center for Security Studies in this southern German Alpine town, US
defense officials met with their counterparts from key NATO allies to
coordinate their efforts to assist a defense overhaul in the region.
Officials from Georgia and Armenia also attended. Officials from
Azerbaijan were invited, but did not attend amid the continuing
animosity with Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabach.
By helping stabilize the South Caucasus and assisting in improvements
in the region’s armed forces, officials say, the initiative contributes
to the war against terrorism.
“Terrorists are looking for areas of instability where they can play
the East-West cultural card, and the Caucasus is a region that is ripe
for that,” a senior British defense official said on the condition
of anonymity. “If we don’t turn our attention to it, they will.”
The new emphasis on the Caucasus seeks to build on recent
US initiatives in the region. From May 2002 until last month, US
soldiers trained four Georgian light-infantry battalions and a tank
company under a $64 million program called the Georgia Train and Equip
Program. The program aimed to professionalize Georgia’s armed forces
and to equip them to root out suspected terrorists linked to Al Qaeda
in the country, most notably the Pankisi Gorge region near Chechnya.
US military officials have since identified illicit weapons, narcotics,
and human-trafficking across the region’s porous frontiers as other key
security concerns. Easy access to smuggling routes empowers organized
crime groups, compromises the authority of central governments,
and destabilizes the region, the officials say.
“Who do we want running these countries, stable democratic authorities
or criminal elements?” US Army Lieutenant Colonel Albert Zaccor
said. “We’re trying to foster the kind of countries we can be
partners with.”
To help eliminate what military officials and strategists call
“ungoverned areas” in the region, the US military and its European
allies seek to help train the region’s border guards. A new American
program called the Caspian Guard Initiative also intends to help
Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan improve air, ground, and maritime security
in the Caspian Sea Basin.
Protecting the flow of oil out of the region is also a top security
concern for the United States and its allies. A major pipeline running
from Baku, Azerbaijan, through Tblisi, Georgia, to Ceyhan, Turkey,
is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. Analysts say
the pipeline will reduce the West’s energy dependence on the Middle
East and the Persian Gulf, but could also become a potential target
for terrorists.
Longtime NATO allies like Britain, Germany, and Turkey — as well
as new alliance members Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — are also
contributing with assistance programs in the region.
Germany is helping to train noncommissioned officers in the region,
Britain has a civilian adviser assisting the Georgian Defense Ministry
and junior officer-training programs in the region, and Turkey is
offering to help coordinate security for the oil pipeline.
The former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which
have reformed their militaries sufficiently to join NATO this year,
say they are now prepared to help Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan
do the same.
The Baltic nations are also offering to help train border guards.
Nikoloz Laliashvili, head of defense policy and NATO integration for
Georgia’s Defense Ministry, said it is his country’s “aspiration”
to follow in the footsteps of the three Baltic countries. “They have
strong experience and advice to offer,” Laliashvili said.
US and other Western officials concede privately that Georgia, Armenia,
and Azerbaijan have made uneven progress. Georgia, which tossed out
its Soviet-era leaders in favor of the pro-Western government of
Mikhail Saakashvili in a peaceful revolution in November, has shown
the most serious commitment to an overhaul, the officials say.
Earlier this month, Georgia peacefully seized control of the rebel
province of Ajaria, in the country’s southwest corner, although
Saakashvili is still struggling to bring other breakaway regions like
Abkhazia and South Ossetia under Tblisi’s control.
Other ethnic and political issues, most notably Armenia’s and
Azerbaijan’s longstanding and bitter dispute over the Nagorno Karabach
region, remain obstacles to progress.
Nevertheless, analysts say the optimism generated by Georgia’s
democratic “Rose Revolution” in November, coupled with the new Western
engagement in the region, has created a window of opportunity. “With
the rise of a new generation of politicians coming into power, the
possibilities for change are greater than ever before,” said Robert
Parsons, director of Radio Free Europe’s Georgia service.
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EU to benefit from cheap gas imports
EUpolitix, Belgium
May 19 2004
European consumers should be able to benefit from cheap gas imports
from Azerbaijan in five or six years time, the country’s leader
has predicted.
The delivery of Azerbaijani gas to Turkey and to Europe in large
quantities would ensure “an alternative and cheap supply” for European
customers, President Ilham Aliyev told a meeting of the Brussels-based
think tank, the European Policy Centre.
“In five or six years, Azerbaijani gas in big quantities will be
supplied to Europe,” he said, commenting that this would be even more
important for consumers than the country’s burgeoning oil industry.
“We will allow our neighbours and friends to benefit,” he assured.
Aliyev, on a two day diplomatic visit to the EU’s Brussels
headquarters, stressed Baku’s “strategic choice” to pursue closer
ties with Europe.
“Our relations with the EU are developing very successfully.
Azerbaijan has a strategically committed to a policy of integration
into European structures.”
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Tuesday he expected
the EU’s relationship with the former Soviet state to increase,
specifically in the field of energy.
The country, along with Caucasus neighbours Armenia and Georgia was
recently added by the European Commission to its ‘New Neighbourhood’
policy, which seeks closer relations with countries around the newly
expanded EU.
Aliyev used a Tuesday meeting with European Commission chief Romano
Prodi to appeal to the EU to help find a solution to a ten year
territorial dispute with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
“We hope that the EU, other international organisations and the OSCE
[Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe] will play a more
active role and allow the people of Azerbaijan to come back,” he said.
Although the two republics have signed a ceasefire, no political
solution has been found to end the bitter dispute over the enclave,
which makes up around five per cent of the area of Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory which falls entirely within Azerbaijan
and is populated by Christian ethnic Armenians, broke away from Baku
when the Soviet Union collapsed.
A five year war over the land claimed around 35 000 lives and created
around one million refugees.
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Putin Supports Embattled Armenian President
BY Clarence Hall The Moscow News
Moscow News (Russia)
May 19, 2004
On Saturday, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan wrapped up his
three-day official visit that gave the beleaguered Caucasus president
the first good news he had had in months
The meeting began as all such meetings do, with the two presidents
praising cooperation between the two countries. Robert Kocharyan
was especially pleased with last year’s 34% of trade growth seen
between Armenia and Russia, as well as Russian businessmen’s continued
investment in his country.
According to experts in Russian-Armenian affairs, the pleasantries
ceased as soon as the presidents moved behind closed doors, where
the real discussion, the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline, began.
On May 13 the final signatures were placed by Iran and Armenia on a
project to build an oil pipeline from Iran to Armenia with possible
plans to extend the shipping network to Georgia, Ukraine, and even
Europe. The United States was the first country to criticize the plan
and went as far as to threaten economic sanctions against Armenia
should it finalize the deal with the Islamic republic.
Russia, too, disapproved of the plan, but for different reasons:
If a second gas supplier appeared from the East, Russia would lose
its gas-supply monopoly to Europe. In early March such fears seemed
to be validated, as Armenia’s Energy Minister, Armen Movsisyan, said,
“After the ‘Blue Stream’ project is realized, building long-distance
sea gas pipelines will no longer be a fantasy.”
Experts say that the Armenian administration was able to convince
President Putin before the trip. “The negotiations for building the
Iran-Armenia gas pipeline took place over 12 years, and that the treaty
was even signed is a huge accomplishment – not just economically,
but politically as well,” says Alexander Iskandaryan, provost at the
CIS Caucasus Institute. He says that the very fact that the treaty was
signed between Armenia and Iran shows that Moscow had given consent
to the deal.
Putin’s support for the pipeline can also be viewed as political
support for Kocharyan. The Armenian opposition has for the past few
months been pressing for significant political changes in the country,
including the resignation of the current government. PACE and OSCE
have both criticized Kocharyan’s heavy-handed approach, while Russia
has remained altogether silent on the issue.
“We have many opportunities to work together better, more effectively,”
President Putin said about Russian-Armenian relations. It is clear
what Russia has done for Armenia – but as for now only the Russian
government knows what Armenia will do for it. Sell it more Armenian
cognac perhaps? MN
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EU offers help to seek solution to Nagorno-Karabakh problem
Associated Press Worldstream
May 18, 2004 Tuesday
BRUSSELS, Belgium — European Commission President Romano Prodi on
Tuesday offered to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia to find a
solution to the decade-long feud over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
After meeting with Prodi, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev said he
welcomed EU involvement to boost the efforts of the “Minsk Group”
of negotiators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe.
“The European Union must take a more active stance,” said Aliev.
Nagorno-Karabakh is an ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan and
has been under control of an internationally unrecognized ethnic
Armenian government backed by forces who also occupy parts of
Azerbaijan adjoining the enclave.
Because of the dispute over the enclave’s final status, the
Armenia-Azerbaijan border is closed. Failure to resolve the issue is
seen as having discouraged investment in both countries because of
concern that another war over the enclave could erupt.
Prodi said a breakthrough is needed as quickly as possible.
“I expressed my will to be at the disposal of the two nations,” said
Prodi, insisting his offer was not targeted against the Minsk Group.
“We don’t want to disturb their work, but simply push them because it
has been so many years that there are no results,” he told reporters.
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Azerbaijan should counter strong Armenian lobby in US – Azeri paper
Ekho, Baku
19 May 04
Text of N. Aliyev and R. Orucov report by Azerbaijani newspaper Ekho on
19 May headlined “Armenian lobby calls on US Congress to cut military
aid to Azerbaijan
US Armenians have been startled by Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev’s statement made in Naxcivan that the Azerbaijani army is
ready to restore its territorial integrity at any time.
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and “key
representatives of the Armenian lobby in the United States capable
of influencing the US policy” have issued a special statement in
connection with the threat “of resumption of aggression against
Nagornyy Karabakh”.
To all appearances, the Armenian lobby in the USA is launching a
new campaign of pressure on the American administration. The ANCA
wants Washington to toughen its position towards Baku. With the
forthcoming elections, the timing of the campaign seems to be perfect,
and considering the proportion of the Armenian population in the USA
it will be difficult to ignore its voice. It is already clear that
the Armenians are going to vote for democratic candidate John Kerry,
who in fact has already promised a lot to the Armenians.
“Unfortunately, it appears that previous signals from the US
administration concerning an increase in the volume of military
assistance to Azerbaijan cheered up the Azerbaijani president so much
that he has precipitously renewed threats against Nagornyy Karabakh,”
the executive director of the ANCA, Aram Khamparyan, has said.
The head of the ANCA appealed to the US Congress expressing the hope
that US congressmen would give the right assessment to the threat
posed by further US military assistance to Azerbaijan. Khamparyan
called on the US Congress to respect the agreement on “parity” (equal
military assistance to Azerbaijan and Armenia), which was reached by
the White House and the Congress in 2001 and served American interests
for several years”.
It is curious what the suspension of all US military assistance to
Azerbaijan could lead to. According to independent military expert
Lt-Col Uzeyir Cafarov, the US military assistance to Azerbaijan
“certainly plays a role in the way certain activities are conducted
in the Azerbaijani armed forces. However, it would be wrong to say
that this assistance is invaluable for our army, because our state
budget allocates sufficient funds to maintain the combat-readiness
of the army.
According to Cafarov, the disruption of the “parity”, as the ANCA
describes the situation, has to do with the fact that Azerbaijan,
unlike Armenia, was and still is actively involved in the international
anti-terror coalition together with the Americans.
“It is not surprising at all in this context that US ambassador
to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish stated recently that his country’s
administration would appreciate the expansion of the Azerbaijani
peacekeeping contingent in Iraq,” Cafarov added.
The military expert believes that the president’s statement was
quite justifiable.
“Our position is quite fair. We think that the negotiations cannot
last forever. They either have to bring about a tangible result or
Azerbaijan has got to reserve the right to liberate its lands by
force,” he said.
According to Cafarov, in this situation diplomats both in and outside
Azerbaijan have to step up their work.
“They have to try to elaborate such statements by the head of state
and other officials. It has to be stressed that Azerbaijan has both
moral and legal right to solve the problem by force.”
The head of the Euro-Atlantic Centre, MP Asim Mollazada, says it is
worth recalling that the previous head of the ANCA, Murad Topolyan,
was arrested and convicted by a California court for maintaining
contact and selling arms to different Arab terrorist groups.
“This situation seems paradoxical. On the one hand, the statement has
been made by a notorious organization and, on the other, it has been
made in support of Armenia, a country of the South Caucasus pursuing
a policy which totally contradicts US national interests. Armenia is
the main military and political partner of Iran and Russia, while
Azerbaijan and Georgia are both parts of the US-led anti-terror
coalition,” he said.
According to Mollazada, not only the US administration but also
a number of influential US officials are starting to have second
thoughts about the role of Armenia.
At the same time, Mollazada acknowledges that the Azeri or Turkish
lobby is not as active in the USA. He thinks it could play an important
role in advocating Azerbaijan’s interests at the political level. “Here
the balance of forces is not in our favour,” he said.
As for countering the efforts of the US Armenians, Mollazada believes
that it is necessary “to start active work not just by launching
short-term campaigns but by organizing serious work informing US
legislators of the real situation between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The
US-based Azerbaijani diplomats and ordinary Azerbaijanis can provide
information about this to local newspapers and write letters about
how the policy of our country meets national security interests of
the United States”.
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Turkish, Armenian Speakers discuss mutual expectations
Anatolia news agency, Ankara
19 May 04
Strasbourg, 19 May: Turkish Grand National Assembly parliament Speaker
Bulent Arinc met Armenia’s parliament Speaker Artur Bagdasaryan for
bilateral talks during the Council of Europe parliament Speaker’s
conference.
During the meeting, which lasted around 45 minutes, Armenia’s
parliament Speaker reportedly raised the issue once more of Yerevan’s
wish to establish diplomatic relations with Ankara.
According to information gathered by the AA [Anatolia] correspondent
from diplomatic sources Arinc voiced what expectations Turkey had of
Armenia before diplomatic relations could be formed.
Voicing the ill will felt at the genocide claims and the land claims
in the Armenian Constitution, Arinc recalled that not just Ankara
but international institutions starting with the UN were expecting
positive steps to be made in connection with the Nagornyy Karabakh
problem. Arinc gave the message that should Turkey’s sensitivities
be taken into account and Armenia took positive steps to settle the
Karabakh problem then Ankara would meet them with pleasure and would
give Yerevan the necessary response.
Recalling that Turkey was the first country to recognize Armenia
and also the first country to extend aid to the people of Armenia,
Arinc said that in response to any positive steps Yerevan might take,
Ankara would give the request for opening diplomatic relations the
consideration it deserved.
Arinc is also going to meet with Turkish judges working at the European
Court of Human Rights today as part of his itinerary in Strasbourg.
The conference of Council of Europe member countries parliament
speakers lasted two days, and ended this morning with a session called:
“Cooperation for More Democracy: National Parliaments and European
Assemblies”.
Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc will return to Turkey tomorrow.
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Azeri leader, Turkish foreign minister discuss Karabakh, Cyprus
ANS Radio, Baku
19 May 04
[Presenter] Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s official visit
to Belgium continues. President Aliyev will meet today NATO
Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. At the end of the second day
of his visit to Brussels, President Aliyev met the Turkish deputy
prime minister and foreign minister, Abdullah Gul. ANS’s special
correspondent, Qanira Pasayeva, has a report on this.
[Correspondent, on the phone] Abdullah Gul advanced a proposal over
the Nagornyy Karabakh problem. That was about the trilateral meeting
of the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Turkish foreign ministers. Asked if
such a meeting was expected within the framework of NATO’s Istanbul
summit in late June, Gul did not rule out this. Armenia also positively
reacted to the issue.
As far as the Cyprus problem is concerned, Gul expressed his
satisfaction with the fact that Azerbaijan had supported Turkey in
the Cyprus affair within the framework of the Islamic Conference
Organization in Jidda [as heard]. Some displeasure was observed,
which mainly stemmed from the Turkish media reports on the absence of
the Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation in [the Council of Europe]
debates over Cyprus in Strasbourg. However, Gul said that such events
might not affect the Azerbaijani-Turkish relations.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had a working breakfast organized
by the European Politics Centre [EPC]. Officials from the EPC also
attended the breakfast party.
[Passage omitted: details of president’s working schedule]
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10 most famous Russians in the USA
Pravda Ru
US scholars, reporters and professors composed long list of Russians
popular in the USA.
The criteria for naming famous Russians were as follows:
1) Authority in professional sphere, such as science, art, literature
and so on
2) Popularity among Americans. Sportsmen, people of show business,
preachers fit this category.
3) Authority in politics (political scientists, lobbyists).
4) Authority in economics (businessmen and managers).
The top ten Russains are:
1. Mikhail Baryshnikov – ballet dancer, producer, actor.
2. Anna Kurnikova – tennis player and model.
3. Dmitry Sims – President of Nixon Research Center.
4. Leon Aron – Director of Russian Research of Institute of American
Entrepreneurship
5. Nikolai Zlobin – Director of Russian and Asian programs of the
Center of Defense Information.
6. Elena Bonner – human rights activist, the widow of Academician
Andrei Sakharov.
7. Yury Temirkhanov – conductor of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
8. Semen Kukes – businessman, Head of YUKOS company.
9. Ariel Koen – Research Director of Nasledie (Heritage) Foundation.
10. Eduafrd Lozansky – publisher and lobbyist, President of American
University in Moscow, founder of Russian Annual Economic Forum.
Then the list follows with physics Alexei Abrikosov and Roald Sgdeev,
historian Sergei Khrushchev, hockey player Pavel Bure, sculptor Ernst
Neizvestny and Sergei Brin who developed Google search system.
All these people came to the USA from Russia, Russian is their native
language.
The citizens of the former USSR contribute to the US culture, science,
education, politics, technology and sports. Russian Americans Joseph
Brodsky and Alexei Abrikosov became Nobel laureates.
Yul Brinner is one of the best Hollywood actors.
Remarkably, Russians did not achieve much in the sphere of business and
economics. Previous generations of Russians in the USA were better in
business. Emigrant Vladimir Zvorykin invented first TV set in 1933.
He founded first TV station with another Russian David Sarnov,
President of Radio Corporation of America, later the plants of the
corporation started producing TV sets. Another Russian emigrant, Igor
Sikorsky, constructed first helicopter in the USA in 1939. Sikorsky
Aviation Corporation is still among the global leaders in constructing
helicopters, the US President uses Sikorsky’s helicopter.
Russians failed to create united community in the USA and elect their
politicians, as Armenians, Jews and Ukrainians did.
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Azerbaijan calls on EU to solve Karabakh dispute
By Sebastian Alison
Reuters AlertNet, UK
May 18 2004
BRUSSELS, May 18 (Reuters) – Azerbaijan called on the European Union
to help solve a long-running row with Armenia over the disputed region
of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday, apparently catching the EU’s executive
Commission off its guard.
The Commission this month added Azerbaijan, with Caucasus neighbours
Armenia and Georgia, to its New Neighbourhood programme, which seeks
closer ties with countries around the bloc following its expansion
eastwards on May 1.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev lost no time in challenging Commission
President Romano Prodi to translate this into action by asking the
EU to take a leading role in the conflict.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a territory wholly inside Azerbaijan, populated
by Christian ethnic Armenians, which broke away from Baku’s rule as
the Soviet Union collapsed. The Azeris, their country controlling
large oil resources, want it back.
Prodi told journalists after meeting Aliyev that the EU had expressed
“our disposal to help if requested”. He insisted he could not give
details as no request had been made.
Not so, shot back Aliyev. “We already asked, and during today’s
meeting once again,” he said.
A ceasefire, ending a six-year conflict that killed about 35,000
people, has held for a decade. However, the Minsk Group of 11
countries, led by France, the United States and Russia under the
mandate of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
has so far failed to settle the problem.
Aliyev, who succeeded his father as president last year, backed the
Minsk Group but said he wanted more.
“Azerbaijan is very strongly interested that other important European
organisations, first of all the European Union, take a more active
stand,” he said.
“If Azerbaijan and Armenia are now in the New Neighbourhood policy, the
occupation by one country of the territory of another must be stopped,”
he added, demanding the immediate withdrawal of Armenian troops.
His remarks suggest the EU may face problems by rolling out the new
policy, which could mean “importing” several conflicts — notably
in Moldova, another New Neighbour, where a stalled war pitting
Romanian-speaking Moldovans against ethnic Russians has also rumbled
on for a decade.
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Azerbaijan calls on EU to help settle Karabakh conflict
ITAR-TASS, Russia
May 18 2004
BRUSSELS, May 18 (Itar-Tass) – Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev
has called on the European Union to take part in the settlement of
the Karabakh conflict.
“The Minsk group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OCSE) makes an important contribution to the problem’s
solution. We consider it useful to attract the European Union, the
Council of Europe and other European organizations for the conflict’s
settlement efforts to achieve tangible results,” Aliyev said at a news
briefing after the talks with the President of the European Commission,
Romano Prodi.
Prodi expressed the readiness to join the work for a settlement of the
Karabakh conflict. He pointed out that the EU was greatly concerned
about the absence of peace in the region.
The EC leader said the union was ready to invigorate the settlement
process and put forward concrete proposals. The EU is also prepared
to step up economic cooperation with Azerbaijan under what has been
termed the “ring of friends and neighbors” strategy, expanded recently
to encompass Azerbaijan.
Alyiev described the recent meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian
foreign ministers as “very important for pursuing a peaceful dialogue”.
“We do not want talks for the sake of talks, we do not a simulation
of talks,” he said. “We seek a meaningful discussion with Armenia of
new themes and problems that can yield concrete results in settling
the conflict in line with international law and territorial integrity
of Azerbaijan,” Aliyev said.
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