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AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT RULES OUT COMPROMISES OVER KARABAKH...
By empty (3/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking to journalists on 12 March after a ceremony to mark the 13th anniversary of the forming of Azerbaijan\'s Interior Ministry troops, President Ilham Aliyev said Baku will not change its negotiating position with regard to resolving the Karabakh conflict, and he excluded any compromises by Azerbaijan in the course of the negotiating process. Aliyev said Azerbaijan\'s negotiating position has become much stronger as a result of unspecified political and diplomatic successes. He termed the recent ceasefire violations a \"provocation\" on the part of Armenia.MOSCOW SEES DOUBLE STANDARDS IN FOREIGN REACTION TO MASKHADOV SLAYING
By empty (3/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Foreign Ministry on 12 March issued a statement saying that it is closely monitoring global reaction to the 8 March slaying of Chechen resistance leader Aslan Maskhadov. The ministry statement said that Maskhadov was \"a figure of the same type\" as radical field commander Shamil Basaev. The statement said that the \"liquidation of Maskhadov\" has activated the enemies of normalization in the Chechen Republic, including \"emissaries and abettors of terrorism who at present are abroad and using the information tribunes of a number of foreign governments.CHECHEN LEADER: MASKHADOV\'S BODY SHOULD BE RELEASED TO FAMILY
By empty (3/11/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A top Chechen government figure, a Kremlin aide and a high-profile Russian lawyer have expressed disapproval of the Russian authorities\' refusal to hand over the body of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed on Tuesday, to his family for burial. The Russian Prosecutor General\'s Office earlier cited a law that prohibits terrorists\' bodies from being released to their families. Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel told Interfax on Thursday that Maskhadov would be buried in an unmarked grave and that his family would not be notified about his burial.SLAIN CHECHEN LEADER\'S SON VOWS \'WAR WILL CONTINUE....\'
By empty (3/11/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Anzor Maskhadov, 29, the only son of murdered resistance leader Aslan Maskhadov, told journalists on 10 March in Baku, where he now lives, that the war in Chechnya will continue despite his father\'s death. He said he will continue the fight for Chechen independence but without returning to Chechnya and taking up arms. Maskhadov told RFE/RL\'s North Caucasus Service on 9 March that Russian arguments that his father was \"a terrorist\" cannot be substantiated, and that he can prove they are untrue.Visit also
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