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November 04, 2004 23:42

• NATO Secretary General arrives in Azerbaijan

  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is expected to discuss with Azerbaijan political and military leaders the preparation for the international Rose-Roth Seminar planned to be conducted by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Baku in late November.

November 03, 2004 23:28

• Abkhazian presidency remains undecided

  Raul Khadzhimba and Sergey Bagapsh, two candidates for the Abkhazian presidency, visited Moscow on November 1-2.

November 03, 2004 23:26

• Azerbaijan human rights activists, journalists invited to UN session

  A session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is to be held in Geneva on November 16-17. Azerbaijan's official report on implementing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will be presented at the session.

November 03, 2004 23:06

• Car explosion in Makhachkala

  Eye-witnesses of the explosion in the center of Makhachkala confirm law enforcers' reports that nobody was in Oka at the moment of the explosion.

November 02, 2004 23:59

• Convicted opposition leaders may be pardoned soon

  Commenting on this report, human rights activist Leyla Yunus said that "recently the Azerbaijan authorities have faced pressure from international organizations, which demand that the opposition leaders should be released, and evidently this circumstance prompted them to make such a decision."

November 02, 2004 23:58

• Armenian opposition to continue protest actions

  "It's very difficult to fight with such a system of course. Mass repressions against participants in meetings and demonstrations in spring and summer confirm it," chair of the Anrapetutiun (Republic) party and deputy of the National Assembly Albert Bazeian said.

November 02, 2004 23:57

• Chechen variant possible in Abkhazia

  In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, Musa Shanibov, the former chairman of the Confederation of Mountain Peoples, said that Abkhazia faced the most dangerous problem. And this problem is created by those who traditionally consider both the authorities and people their property.

November 01, 2004 23:49

• Abkhazian deputies not allowed in parliament

  "This action is caused by today's intention of the parliament to pass a resolution canceling the presidential decree about a repeated election of the head of the republic and to claim a vote of no-confidence in Vladislav Ardzinba," Vasiliy Avidzba, head of Raul Khadzhimba's election staff, said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

November 01, 2004 23:49

• Azerbaijan 'did not plan to remove OSCE monitoring group from Karabakh peace process'

  In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, Novruz Mamedov, head of the foreign relations department in the Azerbaijan presidential administration, commented on the recent decision by the General Committee of the UN General Assembly to recommend putting the question about the situation on the country's occupied territory on the agenda.

November 01, 2004 23:33

• Armenian Foreign Ministry denies resettlement to occupied Azerbaijan territory

  "We claim one more time there's no state policy of resettlement," spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry Gamlet Gasparian said commenting on Azerbaijan's initiative to put the question "About the Situation on the Occupied Azerbaijan Territory" on the agenda of the 59th Session of the UN General Assembly.

October 29, 2004 23:56

• Repeated presidential election to be held in Abkhazia

  Abkhazian President Vladislav Ardzinba has signed a decree to hold a repeated election of the head of the republic.

October 29, 2004 23:49

• Five repatriates from Middle East threatened with deportation

  Under the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation, an application for the prolongation of a residential permit must be submitted six months prior to its expiration. The repatriates claim no one has familiarized them with this document.

October 29, 2004 23:48

• Situation in Prigorodny district stabilizes, says Sultygov

  On October 23, from 200 to 500 people, supposedly relatives of the Beslan tragedy victims, blocked off the federal route Kavkaz on the administrative border with Ingushetia.

October 28, 2004 23:47

• Several people abducted during purges in Chechnya

  The Chechen Interior Ministry has refused to give any comments on the matter, claiming that Chechen policemen have conducted no actions in the village of Noviye Atagi recently.

October 28, 2004 23:34

• Picketers detained in Baku

  Police cruelly beaten picket participants. Several people received serious bodily injuries as a result, and more than 30 participants were detained.

October 28, 2004 23:32

• Azerbaijan authorities deny participating in US operation against Iran

  The Baztab website, close to Iranian special services, spread information yesterday about the gathering of Azerbaijan troops on the border with Iran.

October 27, 2004 23:25

• Teacher committee Beslan Tragedy continues its work

  On October 21, indignant residents of Beslan gathered at the building of the town administration. Their indignation was caused by the fact that material aid did not reach victims.

October 27, 2004 23:08

• Foreign Office urges British deputies not to visit Karabakh

  "Great Britain treats Azerbaijan's territorial integrity with respect, and such trips don't correspond with the interests of Great Britain therefore the government recommends not to pay such visits," embassy officials said.

October 27, 2004 22:51

• European Commission allocates 10 million euro for victims of conflict in Chechnya

  The recipients will include internally displaced persons (IDPs) and vulnerable groups in central and southern Chechnya as well as IDPs in Ingushetia and Daghestan. Assistance includes: food and non-food items, medical support, shelter and water/sanitation, education, psychological assistance and vocational training.

October 26, 2004 23:59

• Monitoring Group urges Council of Europe to seek release of opposition leaders

  The Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations has addressed a letter to Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis in connection with the conviction of seven opposition leaders.