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Baku will Militärausgaben (in einem Jahr!) fast verdoppeln
Baku/Istanbul - Die mit Armenien verfeindete Kaukasus-Republik Aserbaidschan will ihre Militärausgaben im kommenden Jahr fast verdoppeln. Das aserbaidschanische Parlament nahm einen entsprechenden Entwurf für den Staatshaushalt 2011 am Freitag an, wie Medien in Baku berichteten. Finanzminister Samir Scharifow hatte dem Parlament erklärt, die Ausgaben für die Verteidigung sollten im kommenden Jahr auf umgerechnet etwa 1,8 Milliarden Euro steigen, knapp 90 Prozent mehr als im laufenden Haushalt...
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Ilham Aliyev: Armenia is ours!
If you'd like to know how likely or rather unlikely peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia is, you might want to read this excerpt of a speech that Azeri president Aliyev held during the opening-ceremony of a new public school:
"I have repeatedly said that present-day Armenia, the territory, called the Republic of Armenia on the map, is an ancient Azerbaijani land. This is true. Certainly, Zangezur, Irevan khanate are our lands!...
Where did Stepanakert come from? This name was taken from the name of Stepan Shaumyan. If this city had a historical past, related to Armenians, would they have given this name?! Its historical name is Khankendi. This is the reality. Our children must know this, they should know that present-day Armenia locates in ancient Azerbaijani lands. In addition, they also want to create the second state in our territory. They want to create the second Armenian state on the historical Azerbaijani lands. We can never be able to agree on this and we will restore the territorial integrity of our country. By any way! I do not doubt this!"
So he considers Yerevan and many other cities of Armenia (besides Nagorny-Karabakh of course) as Azeri land. Now how could Baku make peace with Yerevan, if it considers Armenia's capital to be Azeri property? This is one of the many examples of how history blocks the path to a peaceful future in the Caucasus.
The full article can be found here.
An interesting insight into the Abkhazian conflict and the abuse of history (in German): Historikerstreit als ideologischer Wegbereiter des Abchasien-Konflikts
"I have repeatedly said that present-day Armenia, the territory, called the Republic of Armenia on the map, is an ancient Azerbaijani land. This is true. Certainly, Zangezur, Irevan khanate are our lands!...
Where did Stepanakert come from? This name was taken from the name of Stepan Shaumyan. If this city had a historical past, related to Armenians, would they have given this name?! Its historical name is Khankendi. This is the reality. Our children must know this, they should know that present-day Armenia locates in ancient Azerbaijani lands. In addition, they also want to create the second state in our territory. They want to create the second Armenian state on the historical Azerbaijani lands. We can never be able to agree on this and we will restore the territorial integrity of our country. By any way! I do not doubt this!"
So he considers Yerevan and many other cities of Armenia (besides Nagorny-Karabakh of course) as Azeri land. Now how could Baku make peace with Yerevan, if it considers Armenia's capital to be Azeri property? This is one of the many examples of how history blocks the path to a peaceful future in the Caucasus.
The full article can be found here.
An interesting insight into the Abkhazian conflict and the abuse of history (in German): Historikerstreit als ideologischer Wegbereiter des Abchasien-Konflikts
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"ARMENIA, GEORGIA TO BOOST ECONOMIC TIES AFTER SOUTH OSSETIA WAR " (Eurasia Daily Mirror)
"After their talks Saakashvili publicly thanked Sarkisian for “expressing support for Georgia’s territorial integrity” and gave his Armenian counterpart an Order of Honor, a top Georgian state award. He stressed the importance of Georgian-Armenian economic ties and said that border crossing procedures for Armenians and Georgians traveling to each other’s country would soon be simplified. “We must review our relationship and do everything to improve it again. I am sure that we will really be useful to each other,” Sarkisian said (Caucasus Press, September 30).
More importantly, the two presidents announced the impending establishment of a Georgian-Armenian consortium that would seek to attract foreign funding for a new highway in southern Georgia that would significantly shorten travel from Armenia to the Georgian Black Sea coast. Armenian Transport and Communications Minister Gurgen Sarkisian gave details of the project at a subsequent news conference in Yerevan, saying that the planned road could be built within two years. He said it would pass through Georgia’s Armenian-populated Javakheti region and go all the way west to the Black Sea port city of Batumi. He added that the new route would cut the distance between the Georgian-Armenian frontier and Batumi by at least one third (Arminfo, October 4)."
Full article: here
The following article describes the limits of armenian foreign policy:
Armenia contradicts earlier Iranian claims of imminent gas deliveries
“I do not exclude that besides attesting to its dependence on Russia with this step the Armenian leadership is also attempting a cunning move to win the favors of Washington, considering the latter’s tense relations with Iran,” analyst and opposition politician Suren Surenyants told ArmeniaNow.
According to him, receiving gas through an alternative way solves not only economic issues, but also largely contributes to the “increase of a political maneuver.”
“In any case, it is obvious that this approach of Armenia is not dictated by the country’s interests,” Surenyants claimed. “It follows the rules of the world’s big players.”
Full article: here
Meanwhile, Alijev's Azerbaijan seeks revenge, says ArmeniaNow.com, citing the Azerbaijani President:
“As long as our territory remains occupied, we will continue the policy of an all-out offensive against Armenia in the political, economic, military, transport, propaganda, and other spheres. That’s for sure,” Azerbaijani media quoted Aliyev as saying in what is viewed as one of his fiercest verbal attacks on Armenia in the generally low-key election campaign.
No cooperation with Armenia is possible before a solution is found to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. No participation (by Armenia) in any of the regional projects is possible until then. And we will do everything possible for today’s situation to continue, for the situation of Armenians to become even more aggravated in conditions of the continuing isolation in order that they better understand what their future hinges upon,” the Azeri leader continued."
Full article: here
More importantly, the two presidents announced the impending establishment of a Georgian-Armenian consortium that would seek to attract foreign funding for a new highway in southern Georgia that would significantly shorten travel from Armenia to the Georgian Black Sea coast. Armenian Transport and Communications Minister Gurgen Sarkisian gave details of the project at a subsequent news conference in Yerevan, saying that the planned road could be built within two years. He said it would pass through Georgia’s Armenian-populated Javakheti region and go all the way west to the Black Sea port city of Batumi. He added that the new route would cut the distance between the Georgian-Armenian frontier and Batumi by at least one third (Arminfo, October 4)."
Full article: here
The following article describes the limits of armenian foreign policy:
Armenia contradicts earlier Iranian claims of imminent gas deliveries
...a spokeswoman for Armenia’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources said no supplies began at the mentioned date because at present Armenia has no need for Iranian gas. Lusine Harutyunyan added that imports from the southern neighbor will be made only “in case of necessity.”
One opposition member thinks that the latest move shows Armenia’s reluctance to risk a fissure in relations with Russia, its sole gas supplier for the time being.“I do not exclude that besides attesting to its dependence on Russia with this step the Armenian leadership is also attempting a cunning move to win the favors of Washington, considering the latter’s tense relations with Iran,” analyst and opposition politician Suren Surenyants told ArmeniaNow.
According to him, receiving gas through an alternative way solves not only economic issues, but also largely contributes to the “increase of a political maneuver.”
“In any case, it is obvious that this approach of Armenia is not dictated by the country’s interests,” Surenyants claimed. “It follows the rules of the world’s big players.”
Full article: here
Meanwhile, Alijev's Azerbaijan seeks revenge, says ArmeniaNow.com, citing the Azerbaijani President:
“As long as our territory remains occupied, we will continue the policy of an all-out offensive against Armenia in the political, economic, military, transport, propaganda, and other spheres. That’s for sure,” Azerbaijani media quoted Aliyev as saying in what is viewed as one of his fiercest verbal attacks on Armenia in the generally low-key election campaign.
No cooperation with Armenia is possible before a solution is found to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. No participation (by Armenia) in any of the regional projects is possible until then. And we will do everything possible for today’s situation to continue, for the situation of Armenians to become even more aggravated in conditions of the continuing isolation in order that they better understand what their future hinges upon,” the Azeri leader continued."
Full article: here
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Azeri deputy foreign minister Araz Azimov: European Union (EU) unable to find a solve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
"Oil and gas-rich rich Azerbaijan, home of another frozen conflict with its neighbouring Russian ally Armenia, does not consider the EU as a feasible peace broker in the region, Azeri deputy foreign minister Araz Azimov has said..."
"The European Union is a powerful economic and political union of states, but in terms of acting in a united way, the EU is not there yet, especially in an environment that changes rapidly. The EU it is not able to act in an instrumental way", Mr Azimov said on his expectations of possible EU involvement in finding a solution for the frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh."
Read the full article on EUObserver.
"The European Union is a powerful economic and political union of states, but in terms of acting in a united way, the EU is not there yet, especially in an environment that changes rapidly. The EU it is not able to act in an instrumental way", Mr Azimov said on his expectations of possible EU involvement in finding a solution for the frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh."
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