Antigovernment demonstration in Baku on 18 June The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), on 22 June called upon the Azerbaijani government to ensure that the November 2005 legislative elections are free and fair and urged political dialogue ahead of the polls. The call came amid accusations from pro-government officials in Baku that the opposition is receiving foreign funds in a bid to topple President Ilham Aliyev.
Voting in Nagorno-Karabakh on 19 June The Nagorno-Karabakh region on 19 June held its fourth parliamentary election since it seceded from Soviet Azerbaijan in 1988. Early results show forces loyal to the ruling administration set to hold an overwhelming majority of seats. Tension in the separatist enclave is brewing as the opposition is threatening to boycott the new parliament amid accusations of ballot fraud.
20 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Preliminary results in yesterday's parliamentary elections in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh show the ruling party has a strong lead.
20 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The opposition bloc in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is criticizing the region's 19 June parliamentary elections as unfair, RFE/RL's Armenian and Azerbaijani services reported.
19 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Voters went to parliamentary polls today in the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, a mostly ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan's National Security Ministry and Prosecutor-General's Office claimed in a joint statement on 13 June to have apprehended two men who have confessed that they were recruited by a person close to the opposition Musavat party to blow up Tagi Ibragimov, the president of the independent television company Azad Azerbaycan, and Appeals Court Judge Bahram Shukyurov.
Prague, 8 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists in Baku on 7 June that "a great deal will depend" on the outcome of his meeting with his Armenian counterpart Vartan Oskanian in Paris on 17 June, echo-az.com and day.az reported on 8 June.
Demonstrators in Baku on 4 June During talks in Baku late on 3 June, the Baku municipal authorities finally caved in to demands by the opposition Ugur bloc (comprising the Musavat party, the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, and the progressive wing of the divided Azerbaijan Popular Front Party [AHCP]) that they give the green light for a planned march and rally in the city the following day.
Scenes from today's demonstration in Baku 4 June 2005 -- Thousands of opposition supporters have gathered in central Baku to demand that the government allow free and fair parliamentary elections in November.
Baku, 3 June 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Azerbaijani authorities said today they will prevent an unsanctioned anti-government rally the opposition has called for tomorrow.
The BTC pipeline being constructed According to a 9 April 2002 report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS), the Caspian region holds oil reserves of 18-34 billion barrels, or roughly 1.8-3.3 percent of the world's proven reserves.
U.S. President Bush (left) with his Georgian counterpart Mikhail Saakashvili in Tbilisi in early June U.S. President George W. Bush says the focus of his second four-year term is the spread of democracy worldwide, and the United States has garnered some of the credit for facilitating the democratic movements in Georgia and Ukraine. But with respect to at least two countries, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, Washington must maintain a careful balance between its economic and strategic interests on the one hand, and their peoples' desire for democracy on the other. RFE/RL spoke with two observers of U.S. policy in Eurasia.
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