7 September 2005 -- Several top members of a leading opposition party said yesterday that they are quitting in protest over what they described as the party's pro-Western stance.
Ayaz Mutalibov (file photo) (official site) 5 September 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Election officials in Azerbaijan's capital today authorized former President Ayaz Mutalibov to run as a candidate in the 6 November parliamentary elections.
President Aliyev is coming under increasing international pressure to hold free elections (AFP) In the run-up to the parliamentary elections scheduled for 6 November, Azerbaijani leaders face an unenviable dilemma.
Will one of these leaders destroy the CIS? Meeting in the wilds of Belarus on 8 December 1991, the presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus announced the creation of a new Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on the ruins of the crumbling USSR. Two weeks later, on 21 December 1991, the presidents of 11 former Soviet republics (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) met in Almaty and signed a protocol to that declaration affirming their countries' membership in the CIS.
29 August 2005 -- Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said weekend talks between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh marked a step forward.
27 August 2005 -- The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia are expected to meet today to discuss the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
26 August 2005 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said that leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) agreed at their summit meeting today in Kazan on the need for fundamental reform.
Armenian President Robert Kocharian (file photo) 26 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is urging the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia to reach a settlement of the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani soldiers on the border of Nagrno-Karabakh (file photo) 24 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Russia's Foreign Ministry says that the foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan met in Moscow today to discuss the dispute over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh territory.
Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian (file photo) 24 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Vardan Oskanian and Elmar Mamedyarov, are expected to hold an official meeting today to discuss the dispute over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh territory.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are scheduled to meet in Moscow on 23 August to resume their talks on approaches to resolving the Karabakh conflict. Days later, the two countries' presidents, Robert Kocharian and Ilham Aliyev, will meet in Kazan on the sidelines of a CIS summit to address the same issue. But although international mediators from the OSCE Minsk Group expressed cautious optimism after visiting Baku, Stepanakert, and Yerevan in early July, they and senior officials in Baku have warned in recent days that there is little chance the two presidents will sign a major peace accord in Kazan.
15 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Russia's leading epidemiologist warned today that a bird flu outbreak in Siberia could spread through Russia's agricultural areas and reach areas in the Middle East and southern Europe.
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