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ARMENIA REJECTS AZERBAIJAN\'S CALL FOR NEW KARABAKH PEACE PLAN
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Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian rejected on 21 January Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev\'s statement the previous day that the OSCE Minsk Group is not doing enough to resolve the Karabakh conflict and should come up with a new peace proposal, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. Oskanian argued that talks should continue on the basis of agreements reached between the two sides during talks in Paris and the U.S.INGUSHETIAN PRESIDENT AGAIN RULES OUT REMERGER WITH CHECHNYA
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Speaking on 21 January at a press conference in Moscow, Murat Zyazikov rejected once again the idea of reuniting Chechnya and Ingushetia as a single federation subject. Zyazikov acknowledged that the Chechen and Ingush peoples are ethnically closely related, and stressed that \"I grew up in Grozny and care about everything that is happening there.\" But he argued that reunification is inappropriate at present.SOME AZERBAIJANI DETAINEES SENTENCED, OTHERS RELEASED
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A Baku district court passed sentence on 21 January on five members of the opposition Musavat party convicted of participating in clashes with police in Baku in the wake of the 15 October presidential election. The five were sentenced to between 12 and 18 months\' imprisonment for obstructing the work of electoral commissions. Also on 21 January, 10 other people apprehended during or after the 16 October clashes were released.U.S. \'DISAPPOINTED\' BY ARMENIAN ABSENCE FROM BAKU NATO PLANNING CONFERENCE
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In a statement released on 20 January by the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, the State Department expressed \"disappointment\" that an Armenian Defense Ministry delegation was unable to travel last week to Azerbaijan to attend a planning conference for military exercises to be held in Azerbaijan later this year within the framework of NATO\'s Partnership for Peace program, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported.Visit also
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