Azerbaijan
Moldova wants to strengthen its relations with Azerbaijan
January 13, 2012By Valeriu Gonta/ Chisinau/ Moldova.ORG/ -- The Moldovan Prime-Minister Vlad Filat has met today with Namig Aliyev, the Azeri Ambassador to Moldova, according to a press release of the Government. The counterparts talked about Filat’s official visit...
East goes back towards authoritarianism, South goes left
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October 28, 2011By Michael Emerson/ Brussels / -- The most striking and indeed astonishing feature of this autumn’s political landscape in the European neighbourhood is the contradictory trend as between East and South. East Europe is reverting back towards authoritarianism...
EU Condemns Minsk Crackdown, Voices Concern Over Ukraine's Tymoshenko
October 02, 2011By Rikard Jozwiak/ WARSAW -- European Union leaders have condemned Belarus over its crackdown on the political opposition and expressed their concerns to Ukraine over the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The statements came at the end...
Unrecognized states more like the flu than like cancer, Malashenko says
February 24, 2011Unrecognized states reflect the continuing tension between the principles of self-determination and of the territorial integrity of existing states, but their appearance is “more like ‘the flu’ than like ‘cancer’&rdquo...
Lithuanian chairmanship tackles protracted conflicts in the OSCE
February 02, 2011Lithuanian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Audronius Azubalis, outlined the chairmanship’s priorities in the Permanent Council’s September 13 and subsequent meetings, as well as statements and introductory visits by his special...
Armenia says will recognize Karabakh in case of war
December 13, 2010Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian says his country will recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as independent if Azerbaijan uses force to resolve their dispute over the region. The dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh has escalated in recent years, with Azerbaijan...
Wikileaks perturb US-Azerbaijan relations (Part One)
December 07, 2010By Vladimir Socor Perhaps more than the WikiLeaks themselves, it is the massive security breach and counterintelligence failure that will, for some time to come, discourage candid conversations between the US government and some of its key partners...
Armenia and Karabakh encouraged by un court ruling on Kosovo
July 30, 2010By Emil Danielyan Authorities in Armenia and Karabakh have reacted very positively to the July 22 decision by the highest UN court to uphold the legality of Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia. They say it strengthens the Armenian...
OSCE media representative condemns new sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist
July 07, 2010The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, condemned an additional jail sentence of 2.5 years handed down today to Eynulla Fatullayev, one of Azerbaijan's most prominent investigative journalists. "I am deeply disappointed...
OSCE Office in Baku prepares legal professionals in Nakhchivan for bar exam
June 28, 2010The OSCE Office in Baku started today a three-week training course in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan for legal professionals planning to take the bar exam. International and local experts, academics and legal practitioners will work...