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OFFICIAL BAKU OBJECTS TO LETTER BY TURKISH PRESIDENT
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Azerbaijani officials protested the congratulation letter to Robert Kocharyan, President of Armenia, sent by Ahmed Nejdet Sezer, the President of Turkey. As Vilayet Guliyev, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan Republic said Turkish ambassador, Ahmed Unal Chelikoz, was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and informed about the objection. Vilayet Guliyev thinks that the Turkish president must know the role of Kocharyan in the occupation of Azerbaijani regions, murder of Azeries and the policy of fictitious genocide of Armenians by Turkey in 1915.TURKEY AND U.S. WRANGLE OVER TURKISH TROOP PLAN
By empty (3/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkey and the United States are bargaining on Turkish demands to deploy military units in northern Iraq to control refugees and monitor the activity of Kurdish groups. Diplomats on Tuesday said Washington may also seek some form of cooperation to support the \"northern front\" it is trying to assemble across the border, despite Turkey\'s refusal to let U.S.AZERIS PROTEST AGAINST SETTLEMENT OF IRAQI ARMENIANS IN KARABAKH
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\"Iraqi Armenians are being settled in Nagornyy Karabakh in violation of international legal norms,\" the chairman of the Karabakh Liberation Organization [KLO], Akif Nagi, has told MPA. He stressed that Armenia was trying to change the demographic situation in Nagornyy Karabakh by settling there residents from Armenia itself and Armenians from abroad. The international organizations should respond to this infringement if the settlement of Armenians from Iraq to Karabakh is confirmed.AZERBAIJAN CONSIDERS PARTICIPATION IN POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION IN IRAQ
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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliev told journalists in Baku on 25 March that Azerbaijani oil industry specialists and medical personnel could be sent to Iraq once the war is over, and Azerbaijani personnel could also help \"to protect Islamic shrines.\" Guliev said coalition troops should take care not to damage such religious sites, which \"belong not just to the Islamic world but to the whole of mankind.\" Guliev also mentioned the possibility that Azerbaijani forces might participate in peacekeeping operations in Iraq.Visit also
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