News Digest
ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS KARABAKH PEACE DEPENDS ON AZERBAIJAN
By empty (3/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a March 10 interview with the independent Shant television channel, Vartan Oskanian said that Armenia has already agreed to the maximum possible concessions in the process of negotiating a settlement to the Karabakh conflict. \"I think what we have agreed to is the utmost line beyond which Armenia cannot go,\" Oskanian said, adding that \"Azerbaijan has not yet reached that line. Therefore, a lot now depends on Azerbaijan.MINSK GROUP URGES \'VIGOROUS WORK\' ON KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
By empty (3/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a statement (http://www.osce.org/item/18319.CHECHEN PRIME MINISTER SAYS SPECIAL SERVICES PROTECT BASAYEV...
By empty (3/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ramzan Kadyrov told journalists in Grozny on March 10 that all Chechen resistance formations have been smashed, and that only a handful of \"odious figures\" remain active, whose death or capture is \"a matter of time.\" Kadyrov said some 3,000 Interior Ministry personnel are engaged in hunting down field commanders Shamil Basayev, Doku Umarov, and Rappani Khalilov in southern Chechnya. He added that Basayev would have been apprehended long ago but for the fact that \"he is under the protection of various special services.ARMENIANS IN SOUTHERN GEORGIA DEMAND AUTONOMY
By empty (3/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenian NGOs in Georgia\'s predominantly Armenian-populated southern region of Djavakheti have written to President Mikheil Saakashvili asking him to grant the region autonomy within Georgia. Vardan Akopian, who heads the NGO Youth of Djavakhk, told journalists that the request is problematic insofar as the Georgian Constitution does not provide for transforming the country into a federation. But he expressed the hope that the Georgian authorities \"will find democratic approaches to the issues of the national minorities,\" and that the granting of autonomy to Djavakheti will prove to be \"the first step towards a new Georgia.Visit also
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