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"Soviet authorities, as well as the Azerbaijani leadership showed inability to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Baku, as well as the then-leadership of Azerbaijan were silent about what happened 30 years ago in Nagorno-Karabakh. They did not take any pragmatic steps to prevent the conflict,” he ...
Two years ago, Azerbaijani troops entered the village of Talish, less than a kilometer from the line of contact separating Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. In the fighting that ensued, Armenian forces managed to beat back the advance, but the village of about 540 residents – all ethnic ...

Bako Sahakyan “represents” the Nagorno-Karabakh region (as well as seven surrounding regions), which is internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan that Armenian armed forces invaded during the 1988–94 Karabakh War. The putative “statehood” of Nagorno-Karabakh's separatist regime is not ...
The de facto president of Nagorno Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan, has made an unprecedented visit to Washington to try to boost American support for the unrecognized state. Azerbaijan, which claims Karabakh as its own, called the trip a “serious blow” to US-Azerbaijan relations and threatened to retaliate.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on March 14 called on the international community to exert pressure on Armenia to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. “We want all sovereign rights of Azerbaijan to be protected,” Yıldırım told state-owned Azerbaijan Television (AZ TV) in the Azeri capital Baku, ...
The U.S. position regarding Nagorno-Karabakh remains unchanged: the United States does not recognize the de-facto regime in Nagorno-Karabakh, nor does any other country, including Armenia. The U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan told this Trend on March 13 commenting on the visit of Bako Sahakyan, who ...

Dedicated to clearing landmines across the world, The HALO Trust has been operating in Nagorno- Karabakh since 2000. In 2015, HALO employed its first, female de-mining team; there are now 11 women, with more undergoing training this year. Defying traditional gender roles, they are able to provide for ...
During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired around 3,000 shots toward the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic/NKR) military positions, and from different-caliber shooting weapons, the Artsakh Ministry of Defense (MOD) informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. The Defense Army ...
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Artsakh Republic Aleksanyan noted, “Nagorno Karabakh is not merely a name of a conflict, it is a place where people live. These people were destined to fight for their right to live.” As proof of Artsakh's determination to build a strong democratic state, Aleksanyan emphasized ...
But I have the impression that especially on Nagorno-Karabakh the international community has switched its ambition from achieving a comprehensive solution and long lasting peace to simply avoiding war. That is not sustainable and has to be reversed. The OSCE PA can play a role but only when ...

Some positive dynamics has been observed in the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiation process recent months, but also counter-productive statements have resonated, writes Gulshan Pashayeva. Dr Gulshan Pashayeva is deputy director of the Centre for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of ...
MUNICH, Germany -- A minor kerfuffle broke out between Armenia's president and an Azerbaijani diplomat during a panel discussion at a high-profile security conference in Germany on February 17 as the two men traded accusations over Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. The sharp ...
Although high expectations were placed on the last meeting of the Azerbaijani, Armenian FMs and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in Krakow, no serious development was achieved during the talks. The only noteworthy point was the discussion over expanding the Office of Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal ...
Conscripts stand against a wall in the yard of their military base in the Martuni region of Nagorno Karabakh. Conscription is mandatory in Armenia; all 18-year-old males have to complete two years of military service before they can continue their studies or work. Many are sent to the Karabakh region and ...
For three decades the border between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan has echoed with the crack of gunfire: the ceaseless noise of the oldest 'frozen conflict' in the former USSR. Yet for those living in Nagorno-Karabakh since the ceasefire of 1994 was signed, this border has seemed to drift further and ...
The employees of Great Britain's HALO Trust organization were injured in a landmine explosion in Azerbaijan's occupied territory. There are killed and injured in the explosion, a representative of HALO Trust in Khankendi told news.am, APA reports. According to Shamshyan.com website, three people were ...
It is necessary to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as early as possible, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said at the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition dedicated to the 26th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide. The event was held at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on February 28.
On February 20, 1988, the extraordinary session of People's Deputies of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Region appealed to the Supreme Soviet Councils of Armenian and Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republics to consider the issue of transferring the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (Region) ...
Three people working for a land-mine clearing charity have been killed after their vehicle hit a mine in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, officials said. A spokeswoman for the de facto health ministry in Nagorno-Karabakh, Maya Azatian, told RFE/RL that two other people who were in the ...


 

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