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AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL SAYS KARABAKH SETTLEMENT \'CLOSER THAN EVER BEFORE\'
By empty (7/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Addressing a press conference in Baku on 18 July, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov, who is President Ilham Aliyev\'s special envoy for the Karabakh peace talks, said that \"in present conditions we are closer to peace than ever before.\" Echoing comments by Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov last month, Azimov enumerated aspects of the conflict currently under discussion, including the withdrawal of Armenian forces from districts of Azerbaijan adjacent to the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the repatriation of displaced persons, economic rehabilitation of the conflict zone, and the deployment of a peacekeeping force. At the same time, Azimov characterized as either a \"provocation\" or a \"trial balloon\" Armenian statements last week that a peace settlement could make provision for a future referendum on the status of Karabakh vis-a-vis Azerbaijan.UZBEK EMBASSY IN KYRGYZSTAN ISSUES STATEMENT ON ASYLUM SEEKERS
By empty (7/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan\'s embassy in Kyrgyzstan issued a statement on 16 July saying that the issue of over 400 Uzbek asylum seekers currently in Kyrgyzstan will be resolved in \"close collaboration with appropriate Kyrgyz agencies in accordance with the principles of good-neighborliness, fraternal friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance,\" RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. The statement warned, however, that \"the puppeteers who want to destabilize the Ferghana Valley by means of obedient international organizations and NGOs continue to exploit the fallout from the failed plan to bring off an armed coup in Uzbekistan in order to justify their step-by-step imposition of the so-called \'project to advance democracy.\'\" The embassy denied that Uzbekistan is exerting pressure on Kyrgyzstan.SEVENTY TERROR ACTS STAGED IN DAGESTAN IN FIRST HALF OF 2005 - EXPERT
By empty (7/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
As many as 70 terrorist attacks were perpetrated in the republic of Dagestan over the first six months of 2005, Igor Dobayev, a Russian Academy of Sciences expert, said in a report, copies of which were circulated by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights. \"As many as 70 terrorist attacks were staged in Dagestan in the first half of 2005 alone. Of them, more than 40 [attacks] took place in [the Dagestani capital of] Makhachkala.GEORGIAN MINISTER WARNS OF IMMINENT \'PROVOCATION\' IN SOUTH OSSETIA
By empty (7/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Giorgi Khaindrava, who is Georgian minister for conflict resolution, told journalists on 16 July that the situation in the South Ossetian conflict zone remains tense in the wake of the 6 June abduction of four Georgian men. Repeated search operations have failed to locate the four, and Major General Murat Kulakhmetov, commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in the conflict zone, said on 15 July he fears they are dead. The brother of one of the four blamed Khaindrava on 16 July for failing to secure their release and threatened to kill the minister when he next travels to the conflict zone.Visit also
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