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20070608

United States - Russia - Azerbaijan - Poland - "Rice: US pursues own missile plan." ... "The United States will pursue its own plans to put a missile defense in Eastern Europe despite Russian suggestions to locate it outside the region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told The Associated Press Friday." ... "Rice said Russian President Vladimir Putin's surprise offer to share a Soviet-era radar tracking station in Azerbaijan for the project had caught the Bush administration off guard, but that it was worth looking into even while missile defense negotiations with Poland and the Czech Republic continue." -By Matthew Lee -AP via -Chron
Russia - Azerbaijan - US - "Nato wary on joint missile shield: Nato has reacted cautiously to a Russian offer to use a radar facility in Azerbaijan as part of a joint missile defence system with the US." ... "The alliance's secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, welcomed the proposal as a break with the "anachronistic" rhetoric between the two countries." ... "But he warned the system would probably be too close to the "rogue states" it is designed to defend against." ... "Russia's President Vladimir Putin made the offer at the G8 summit on Thursday." ... "Mr Putin presented his proposal to US President George W Bush as an alternative to US plans to deploy missile defences in Poland and the Czech Republic." -BBC/News
Russia - Azerbaijan - US - Poland - Iran - Nuclear - Military - "Putin surprises US with missile suggestion." ... "Vladimir Putin sprang a diplomatic surprise yesterday in his dispute with America over the siting of a US missile defence system in Europe, suggesting instead that it could be placed in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan." ... "The Russian leader, who raised the prospect of a new cold war with the west in his hawkish speech on the eve of the summit, claimed he had already secured the agreement of the Azerbaijani government to the proposal." ... "The US proposal for a missile defence system, including interceptor and radar, sited in the former Warsaw pact countries of Poland and the Czech Republic, has prompted fury in Moscow [Russia's capital]. Mr Putin has threatened to train his nuclear arsenal on Europe as a reprisal, as well as withdraw from arms control treaties." ... "But yesterday Mr Putin said he would drop his objections to Mr Bush's plan if the interceptors and radar were in the former Soviet republic. He argued that a system based in Azerbaijan would be more effective in combating missiles aimed at Europe and the US by so-called rogue states such as Iran." - By Patrick Wintour -Guardian.co.uk

20070607

Russia - US - Azerbaijan - Military - Technology - "Putin's offer catches Bush off guard." ... "Mr Putin explained he had proposed the use of a former Soviet radar base in Azerbaijan as an alternative to the controversial missile defence facilities the US is planning to build in central Europe." ... "The offer raised the prospect of unprecedented military co-operation between the US and Russia and provided a potential solution to their bitter dispute over missile defence." ... "Three days earlier in Prague [Czech Republic capital], Mr Bush had invited Russia to "participate" in the US missile defence programme, as part of efforts to reassure Moscow [Russia's capital] that its ballistic missile arsenal was not the target of the technology." ... "But it is almost certain that outsourcing a crucial part of the US missile defence system to a former Soviet state was not what Mr Bush had in mind." -By Andrew Ward in Heiligendamm and Neil Buckley -FT.com via -MSNBC

20060510

Human Rights - Politics - China - Cuba - Pakistan - Russia - Saudi Arabia - Azerbaijan - Iran - Venezuela - "New U.N. Rights Group Includes Six Nations With Poor Records." ... "Six nations with poor human rights records were among those elected to the new Human Rights Council on Tuesday, although notorious violators that had belonged to the predecessor Human Rights Commission did not succeed in winning places in the new group." ... "China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, countries cited by human rights groups as not deserving membership, were among the 47 nations elected to the council. But in a move hailed by the same groups, both Iran and Venezuela failed to attract the needed votes." -By Warren Hoge -NYTimes

20051127

Azerbaijan - Politics - "Azerbaijan protest forcefully shut down: Group driven away with water cannons." ... "Thousands of protesters in Azerbaijan shouting "Freedom!" and vowing to occupy downtown Baku on Saturday were beaten back by riot police wielding truncheons and water cannons. Witnesses said hundreds of protesters were injured, along with at least 26 police officers." ... "The demonstration, in which opposition leaders demanding new parliamentary elections appeared to be staging an attempt to occupy the capital's Victory Square, ended abruptly when officers in helmets and riot shields broke apart the speaker's stand, ripped orange flags out of protesters' hands and began beating demonstrators and opposition leaders with batons, leaving several people lying injured in the square." -By Kim Murphy -LAtimes via -SFGate.com

20051126

Azerbaijan - Politics - "Azerbaijani activists clash with police." ... "Truncheon-wielding police Saturday beat and dispersed opposition protesters demanding a redo of disputed parliamentary elections, the first use of force against demonstrators since the vote." ... "Some 15,000 opposition activists gathered in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, to protest Nov. 6 parliamentary elections they claimed were rigged. It was latest in a series of such demonstrations in recent weeks." -By Aida Sultanova -AP via-MercuryNews

20051119

Azerbaijan - "Thousands demand fresh elections in Azerbaijan." ... ""Around 15,000 opposition supporters rallied on the outskirts of Baku on Saturday, demanding that Azerbaijan's leaders re-run parliamentary elections that were criticised by the West." ... "This was the third major protest since a November 6 poll handed victory to those loyal to President Ilham Aliyev, in a vote observers said was marred by ballot stuffing and police interference. -Reuters

20051113

Azerbaijan - "Thousands protest in Azerbaijan." ... "More than 20,000 opposition supporters packed a square in Azerbaijan's capital Sunday in the second mass protest in recent days, demanding a rerun of disputed parliamentary elections in this oil-rich Caspian Sea nation." ... "Gathering under a sea of orange flags and chanting “Resign!” and “Freedom!”, opposition activists railed against what they said was a fraudulent vote in a scene similar to the protests that propelled opposition leaders to power in three other former Soviet republics in recent years." ... "About 15,000 protesters also demonstrated Wednesday against the Nov. 6 elections." -By Aida Sultanova -AP via -GlobeAndMail

20051110

Azerbaijan - Georgia - People - "Cautious protest in Azerbaijan: An opposition protest of election results occurred peacefully Wednesday. Another is planned for Saturday." ... "Thousands of protesters marched Wednesday to demand a replay of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, which international observers have judged badly tainted by voter coercion and ballot-fixing." ... ""I want to live in a democratic country. It's our last chance," said Samir Hussein, a businessman who joined 15,000 opposition supporters who marched peacefully, as 500 or more riot police looked on, through a Baku suburb. "If we lose our chance today, we will never get freedom."" ... "Azeri opposition leaders are hoping to harness popular outrage over the flawed election to force authorities into staging the voting again - with more democratic conditions. Roses and orange banners betrayed the source of their inspiration: the peaceful revolutions that brought democratic change to Georgia and Ukraine in the past two years, following similar official attempts to rig results." -By Daria Vaisman with contributions by Fred Weir -CSMonitor

20051109

Azerbaijan - "Thousands demand fresh elections in Azerbaijan." ... "Thousands of opposition supporters marched into Baku's Victory Square today under a forest of orange flags to demand fresh parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan amid a heavy police presence." ... "The opposition protests followed reports of widespread vote fraud in Sunday's elections in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan that were won overwhelmingly by the party of President Ilham Aliyev." -AFXNews via -Forbes

20051108

Azerbaijan - "Azerbaijani Vote Annulled in Two Districts." ... "Azerbaijan's election commission on Tuesday annulled the results of the weekend parliamentary vote in two districts and ordered a recount in another, while the ruling party claimed victory." ... "President Ilham Aliev on Monday acknowledged violations in seven or eight of the country's 125 electoral districts and said prosecutors would investigate." ... "Earlier Tuesday, opposition leader Isa Gambar said his coalition had no faith in the authorities' commitment to address the violations, which it has said were massive." -AP via -CBSNews
Azerbaijan - "Azerbaijan: the next ex-Soviet revolution? Opposition leaders question the validity of Monday's parliamentary elections in this oil-rich nation." ... "Just one day after the last ballot was cast in Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections, opposition parties, backed by foreign observers, are calling the vote invalid and threatening massive street rallies to force a replay of the vote." ... "The government of President Ilham Aliyev, in a closely watched campaign, promised a free and fair vote on Sunday. But Monday, the main opposition party, Azadliq, said the results in four-fifths of the country's provinces should be invalidated." ... ""These were the most falsified elections in Azeri history," the opposition bloc's campaign manager, Panakh Guseinov, said." -By Daria Vaisman -CSMonitor
Azerbaijan - EU - US - "Azerbaijan's opposition demands new election: Reports from foreign, domestic observers cite serious problems in Sunday's vote." ... "Azerbaijan's opposition called yesterday for a new election, armed with stinging reports from election observers that said the vote fell well short of international standards." ... "Officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the European Union and even from Azerbaijan's supporter, the United States, expressed serious concerns about the fairness of Sunday's parliamentary election." ... "The effect of the international condemnation may be limited in an authoritarian state that remains a staunch military ally and an important source of oil for Western countries. The monitors declined to make any judgment about whether the election's flaws affected the overall result, in which the ruling party retained firm control of parliament." -By Graeme Smith -GlobeAndMail
Azerbaijan - "Fraud mars Azerbaijan vote: Aliyev retains presidency amid widespread violations; opposition calls for nationwide protests." ... "Western election monitors yesterday condemned Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections as having widespread violations, and opposition parties prepared to protest against President Ilham Aliyev's iron-fisted regime." ... ""Elections in Azerbaijan did not meet international standards," the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe said in a statement." ... "Forty-three percent of ballot-counting after Sunday's vote was "bad or very bad," Leo Platvoet, the Council of Europe delegation head, said in Baku, capital of the oil-rich former Soviet republic. In addition, observers saw ballot-box stuffing and people interfering with voting, according to the OSCE." -By Sebastian Smith -Newsday.com

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20051107

Azerbaijan - "Monitors in Azerbaijan Say Election Did Not Meet Standards." ... "International election monitors said today that Azerbaijan's parliamentary election was tainted by range of government abuses and failed to meet democratic standards, expressing evident Western disappointment that the country had not lived up its president's pledges to hold a fair vote." ... "The unsparing assessment, issued by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, lent credibility to a bloc of opposition parties that had already declared the vote fraudulent, and moved this small, oil-rich state toward the possibility of clashes between angry opposition members and the police, who have dispersed anti-government street rallies this year with force." ... "The bloc, known as Azadliq, the Azeri word for Freedom, vowed to hold peaceful demonstrations beginning Wednesday, seeking to overturn many of the results in districts throughout the country." -By C. J. Chivers -NYTimes
Azerbaijan - United States - "U.S. Raises Concerns About Azerbaijan Vote: U.S. Raises Concerns About Azerbaijan Elections, Backing Group's Findings of Irregularities." ... "The United States called on the Azerbaijani government "to take immediate investigations into these irregularities and fraud consistent with Azerbaijan's laws," [State Department spokesman Adam] Ereli said." ... "Ereli also said the United States was urging that "all protests and demonstrations need to be peaceful."" -AP via -ABCNEWS.com
Azerbaijan - "Azerbaijan Votes, Amid Accusations of Fraud and Abuse." ... "After months of pre-election tension in a nation that has never had a free and fair election under its ruling family, voters in Azerbaijan cast their ballots for Parliament on Sunday amid new accusations of fraud and government abuses." ... "What is at stake in the election is the international reputation of Azerbaijan, a small, oil-rich nation on the Caspian Sea that has built close ties with the United States, as well as that of its young president, Ilham Aliyev, 43." ... "Mr. Aliyev was the political heir of his father, Heydar Aliyev, who ruled the country through most of its independence. The younger Mr. Aliyev came to power in October 2003 in an election marred by fraud and followed by violence. His father died in December of that year." (1, 2) -By C. J. Chivers -NYTimes

20051105

Azerbaijan - Russia - Georgia - Turkey - Iran - Energy - "Azerbaijan Braces for Election: Riots Threatened If Fraud Is Seen." ... "Flame licks the hills outside of this city on the Caspian Sea, spontaneous little eruptions jumping from the earth and testifying to the energy riches that this Muslim country with a large impoverished population is about to transform into billions of dollars in cold cash." ... "Between now and 2024, a new oil pipeline to Turkey will generate an estimated $124 billion, a bonanza for this nation of 8 million with a state budget this year of $1.4 billion." ... "Azerbaijan, a small former Soviet republic squeezed between Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Iran, is on the verge of an oil boom. On Sunday it will go to the polls in parliamentary elections, and the outcome, amid charges of strong-arm tactics and fears of vote-rigging, might prove just as pivotal to the country's future." -By Peter Finn-WashingtonPost

20030318

- - - - "State Department Noon Briefing Transcript [List of the 30 Nations Supporting US Disarmament of Iraq]." ... "BRIEFER: Richard Boucher, Spokesman." ... "MR. BOUCHER: There are 30 countries who have agreed to be part of the coalition for the immediate disarmament of Iraq. I'd have to say these are countries that we have gone to and said, "Do you want to be listed?" and they have said, "Yes."" ... "They are: Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan." ... "In addition to these countries, there are actually another 15 or so that we know of, probably more than 15, that are cooperating with us in -- and the coalition, or perhaps offering defensive assets in the event that Saddam resorts to the use of weapons of mass destruction." -Washington File -State.gov

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AZERBAIJAN NOTES:

From the World Factbook:

Country name:

conventional long form: Republic of Azerbaijan
conventional short form: Azerbaijan
local short form: none
local long form: Azarbaycan Respublikasi
former: Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

Government type: republic
Capital: Baku (Baki)
Nationality: noun: Azerbaijani(s), Azeri(s) - adjective: Azerbaijani, Azeri
Background: "Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - was briefly independent from 1918 to 1920; it regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh enclave (largely Armenian populated). Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory and must support some 600,000 internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict. Corruption is ubiquitous, and the promise of widespread wealth from Azerbaijan's undeveloped petroleum resources remains largely unfulfilled."
Economy - overview: "Azerbaijan's number one export is oil. Azerbaijan's oil production declined through 1997, but has registered an increase every year since. Negotiation of production-sharing arrangements (PSAs) with foreign firms, which have committed $60 billion to long-term oilfield development, should generate the funds needed to spur future industrial development. Oil production under the first of these PSAs, with the Azerbaijan International Operating Company, began in November 1997. A consortium of Western oil companies began pumping 1 million barrels a day from a large offshore field in early 2006, through a $4 billion pipeline it built from Baku to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. By 2010 revenues from this project will double the country's current GDP. Azerbaijan shares all the formidable problems of the former Soviet republics in making the transition from a command to a market economy, but its considerable energy resources brighten its long-term prospects. Baku has only recently begun making progress on economic reform, and old economic ties and structures are slowly being replaced. Several other obstacles impede Azerbaijan's economic progress: the need for stepped up foreign investment in the non-energy sector, the continuing conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the pervasive corruption. Trade with Russia and the other former Soviet republics is declining in importance, while trade is building with Turkey and the nations of Europe. Long-term prospects will depend on world oil prices, the location of new pipelines in the region, and Azerbaijan's ability to manage its oil wealth."

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