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September 24, 2004 18:30

• Armenia pins great hopes on OSCE Minsk Group

  Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasarian met with members of the delegation headed by OSCE Chairman's special envoy Philip Dimitrov to discuss issues related to the resolution of the Karabakh problem.

September 23, 2004 19:37

• Turkey takes part in resolution of Karabakh problem

  Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul will hold bilateral meetings with Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia Elmar Mamedyarov and Vardan Oskanian during the next UN session in New York.

September 23, 2004 19:19

• PACE Monitoring Committee criticizes Azerbaijan

  Most of Azerbaijan political scientists consider the report published by Andreas Gross and Adres Herkel rather tough, but at the same time do not expect the PACE to punish the Azerbaijan authorities during the forthcoming session.

September 22, 2004 19:46

• 14 IMC doctors wanted by federal police

  On September 20, 14 doctors from international medical organization "International Medical Corp" (IMC) turned to Nazran office of HRC "Memorial" for assistance in bringing authorities to investigate the fact that the police have issued a public call for information, connecting them to terrorist acts in Russia.

September 22, 2004 19:32

• Azerbaijan opposition parties to hold meeting

  Chair of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party Ali Kerimli said the decision to hold the meeting was made to demand that Azerbaijan should honor its commitments to the Council of Europe.

September 22, 2004 19:15

• Efforts to search for Maskhadov, Basayev redoubled

  Many people in Chechnya believe officers of Chechen security agencies aim at receiving a reward for Maskhadov and Basayev's heads.

September 22, 2004 18:38

• New plan for resolving conflict 'unacceptable' for Abkhazia

  "Abkhazia has gain independence and is inclined to build relations with Georgia only on terms of good-neighborliness. Any full of wide degree of autonomy is out of the question," Astamur Tania said.

September 21, 2004 23:10

• PACE to discuss report on Armenia

  The only paragraph in the report on Armenia's commitments which caused the PACE Monitoring Committee's dissatisfaction concerns violations in the course of the 2003 elections, Vice Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran Torosian said.

September 21, 2004 22:38

• Chechen public indignant at intention to pardon Budanov

  First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Government Ramzan Kadyrov issued open threats towards Budanov. "If Budanov is amnestied, we will find an opportunity to reward him according to his deserts," he said.

September 21, 2004 22:07

• Chechen children cannot attend Azerbaijan schools, says rights defender

  In its turn, the press service of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Education denied this information.

September 20, 2004 20:18

• Separatist ideologist stands trial in Dagestan

  Abdulla Aliev, known under the literary name Adallo, is charged under three articles of the Criminal Code: organization of an armed revolt, membership in illegal armed units, and illegal carrying of arms.

September 20, 2004 19:44

• Azerbaijan has no information about arrival of saboteurs from Chechnya

  Mairbek Taramov has announced that a group of saboteurs of the Chechen President's security service arrived in Baku on September 8 to liquidate leaders of Chechen communities in Azerbaijan, members of the Azerbaijan parliament or their families, and to blow up the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline.

September 20, 2004 19:20

• Chechen rebels 'do not undergo treatment in Azerbaijan'

  Ilya Shabalkin announced that an Arab mercenary detained by FSB (Federal Security Service) officers in the North Caucasus had been moving from Russia to Azerbaijan to undergo treatment for a wound.

September 17, 2004 20:55

• Russia presents its plan for resolving Karabakh conflict

  Vladimir Putin told journalists after the meeting that thought no result had been achieved yet, each meeting of such a kind was a "step forward".

September 17, 2004 20:49

• South Osetian authorities suspect Georgia of preparing military invasion

  According to the South Osetian Defense Ministry, elements of the Georgian Armed Forces numbering about 16 thousand people are amassed along the perimeter of South Osetian borders now. And the number of servicemen and fighters in the units stationed inside South Osetia in Georgian villages exceeds 3 thousand.

September 16, 2004 22:43

• Operational headquarters 'had no information about terrorists' demands'

  "I was enlisted in the headquarters to release hostages as a possible mediator in negotiations. But even on the second day of the capture nobody knew what the terrorists were seeking after," Ruslan Badalov head of the Chechen National Rescue Committee said.

September 16, 2004 22:32

• State officials met with Wahhabis

  There are 43 names in the list of Wahhabis. They all were kept under special observation after the developments in Beslan.

September 16, 2004 19:16

• PACE Monitoring Committee criticizes Azerbaijan, Armenia

  PACE co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel spoke at the session. They mentioned the recent presidential pardon decree among positive factors.

September 15, 2004 22:11

• New PACE rapporteur on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict appointed

  New rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was appointed at the session of the PACE Political Committee in Paris yesterday. He is David Atkinson, head of the Azerbaijan Delegation to the PACE Samed Seidov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

September 15, 2004 21:36

• Azerbaijan parliament discusses cancellation of NATO's maneuvers

  Summing up the debates, Speaker Murtuz Aleskerov said: "We protested against the arrival of servicemen who occupied our lands and shed our people's blood and secured our object."