An antigovernment demonstration in mid-June As in 2000 and 2003, Azerbaijan's various opposition forces appear reluctant, if not unable, to close ranks in a single bloc to participate in the 6 November parliamentary elections. Both the "traditional" opposition parties and the more recent "liberal" forces have made their insistence that the election process and vote be free and fair a key tenet of their respective election platforms.
An opposition demonstration in Baku (file photo) 27 July 2005 -- The United States says authorities in Azerbaijan should do more to battle recent voting fraud if they are to build trust in the voting process ahead of a November parliamentary poll.
An ethnic Armenian fighter in Karabakh Baku, 27 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky, who is on a visit to Baku, today said international mediators were cautiously optimistic a breakthrough could be reached soon in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
27 July (RFE/RL) -- The United States plans to finance an exit poll in Azerbaijan's November parliamentary elections to ensure a free and fair ballot.
26 July 2005 -- A senior U.S. State Department official has expressed concern over China and India's willingness to make energy deals with countries he says are "pursuing policies that are harmful to global stability."
23 July 2005 -- Hundreds of Azerbaijani opposition supporters rallied in the capital, Baku, today to call for November's parliamentary elections to be free and fair.
President Ilham Aliyev (file photo) Conventional wisdom assumes that a covert struggle is under way between "conservatives" and "liberals" within the Azerbaijani leadership. But that assumption may be an oversimplification that fails to acknowledge a faction that advocates a managed transition to a more liberal political system, but one with an Islamic component.
20 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- A group of ethnic Azeri villagers from southern Georgia picketed the State Chancellery in Tbilisi today to demand that an official investigation be launched into the disappearance of their religious leader, local media reported.
Madeleine Albright speaking to RFE/RL in Baku Ilham Aliyev, who took over Azerbaijan's presidency from his father, Heidar Aliyev, in controversial 2003 elections, has only recently allowed opposition protests to take place, amid heavy international pressure. As the two-day visit to Baku of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright suggests, pressure is mounting on Aliyev's administration to oversee free and fair parliamentary elections in November, or risk international isolation.
13 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says that the United States is eager to see a speedy resolution to the Azeri-Armenian conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, RFE/RL reported.
12 July 2005 -- International mediators involved in the territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan said today there is hope for a settlement.
By Harry Tamrazian http://gdb.rferl.org/BF74D03C-E9E1-4251-8FFD-0A0FF8216553_w203.jpg Azeri soldiers near Nagorno-Karabakh (file photo) 12 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to hammering out a peace accord on Nagorno-Karabakh that will allow its ethnic Armenian residents to decide their status in an internationally supervised referendum, according to sources in Yerevan privy to the negotiating process.
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