GUAM leaders at a 2006 summit in Kyiv. From left to right, Voronin, Aliyev, Yushchenko, and Saakashvili (official site) June 18, 2007 -- Top officials from Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova are gathering in Baku for a two-day summit.
Iran says it has received assurances that Moscow willl not let the United States share a Russian radar facility in Azerbaijan as part of a missile shield against Iran.
Journalists protested growing media restrictions (RFE/RL) June 14, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Police in Baku have broken up a demonstration of approximately 50 journalists protesting government pressure on the media, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reported.
Iranian politicians have slammed a Russian proposal that the United States deploy components of an missile-defense shield in Azerbaijan.
June 14, 2007 -- NATO officials meeting in Brussels say the United States will continue talks with Poland and the Czech Republic on missile-defense basing.
NATO officials have expressed doubts that Azerbaijan's Qabala radar station would a good site (RFE/RL) BRUSSELS, June 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. missile-defense plans for Central Europe and NATO's difficulties in Afghanistan will top the agenda at the alliance's annual meeting of defense ministers, which opens in Brussels on June 14.
June 13, 2007 -- An Azerbaijani opposition leader says it would serve Baku's interests if the United States and Russia jointly used a radar station in the country.
June 12, 2007 -- A Russian general says Moscow hopes to begin consultations with Washington in July on the joint use of an Azerbaijani radar station to guard against missile threats.
The U.S. president's strong support for Kosovo's independence is stirring emotions in "frozen-conflict" zones such as Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
(RFE/RL) June 11, 2007 -- Turkmenistan announced today that it will reopen its embassy in Azerbaijan.
June 10, 2007 -- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev today reacted cautiously to a Russian proposal for the United States to share use of a radar station in Azerbaijan to counter a potential threat from Iran, and North Korea.
June 10, 2007 -- The Iranian parliament today called on its government to "harshly react" to a Russian proposal on the placement in Azerbaijan of a key component in a joint U.S.-Russian antimissile radar system.
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