Azerbaijan (Armenians)
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It was reported that humanitarian aid for Azerbaijan would be cut. This was connected to the increasing demand for such aid throughout the world while the possibilities for rendering assistance were diminishing. Cutting of humanitarian aid would mostly affect the Azerbaijani refugees from Nagornyy Karabakh (BBC). | |
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Oct 9, 1999 |
About 50,000 people demonstrated in the Azerbaijani capital Baku against Armenian involvement in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Speakers called for the international community to recognize Armenia as the aggressor in the conflict, and denounced Russia for backing Armenia in the dispute. They proposed cultural autonomy for the region (AFP). |
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Oct 25, 1999 |
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said that Armenia was ready to put into operation the Baku-Yerevan-Nakhichevan railway without any preliminary conditions. The minister said that the European Union backed Armenia's position on the railway issue, considering that small steps should be taken to cooperate on various regional issues. The Minister said that Azerbaijan hindered the process (BBC). |
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Oct 26, 1999 |
US Deputy State Secretary Strobe Talbott arrived in Baku by personal instruction of the US President and the State Secretary to discuss additional measures to bring peace to the region. Other issues to be discussed in Azerbaijan included energy cooperation, the construction of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline for carrying Caspian oil to international markets, the strengthening of political institutions in the Transcaucasian republics, and the development of economic cooperation (ITAR-TASS News agency). |
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Oct 27, 1999 |
It was believed that the upcoming OSCE summit at Instanbul would be very important for the settlement of the conflict in Nagornyy Karabakh. It was said that Azerbaijan did not rule out the possibility of a corresponding agreement being signed with Armenia at that forum (ITAR-TASS News Agency). |
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Oct 29, 1999 |
It was reported that on 27 October five gunmen opened fire in the Armenian parliament and killed prime minister Vazgen Sarkisyan and seven leading politicians. President Kocharyan opened talks with leading politicians on forming a new government to replace that decimated in the attack. Three days of state mourning began for the victims. The gunmen surrendered but the precise motives of the attackers remained unknown (DPA). |
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Oct 29, 1999 |
US State Department spokesman James Rubin said that Washington had no evidence that the Nagorno-Karabakh issue had been the motive of gunmen who stormed the parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven senior government officials (AFP). |
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Oct 30, 1999 |
Ali Kerimov, first deputy chairman of the People's Front of Azrebaijani Party said that recent available data indicated that "the incident in the Armenian parliament had no connection with negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia." Keromov quoted a statement made by the terrorists on the Armenian TV saying that the act was directed against Prime Minister Sarkisyan who "was hampering the development of democracy." Nuraddin Mammadli, chairman of the supreme council of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, said that the incident could place the legitimacy of Armenian President Robert Kocharyan in doubt and could lead to a "freezing" of the negotiating process on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. "It cannot be ruled out that Kocharyan himself may be behind the terrorist act. Sarkisyan and (Armenian Speaker) Karen Demirchyan, who enjoyed strong social support ... had ... exerted pressure on Kocharyan. By pushing aside Sarkisyan and Demirchyan, Kocharyan enjoys a free and independent stance." Mammadli noted that with this freedom Kocharyan could influence a speedy solution of the Karabakh conflict (BBC). |
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Oct 31, 1999 |
President Robert Kocharyan assumed the powers of Prime Minister until a new Prime Minister was appointed. Nothing suggested that the group which committed the terrorist act in the Armenian parliament had any specific political motives. There was no sign that it was intended to torpedo talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Nairi Unanyan, a journalist and political activist who led the group committing the bloodbath, said that he was alarmed by the fact that the corrupted government had ruined his country and caused the country's poverty (Scottland on Sunday). |
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Nov 22, 1999 |
An Azerbaijani newspaper said that the Azerbaijani authorities and opposition felt vindicated by the fact that no accord on Nagornyy Karabakh was signed at the OSCE Istanbul summit. Analyzing the post-summit scenario the paper suggested that the US was likely to play the main role in negotiations on Karabakh once Russia got involved into the Chechen conflict (BBC). |
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Nov 22, 1999 |
It was reported that the assassination were committed by members of the Dashnaktsutyun Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party (BBC). |
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Nov 29, 1999 |
It was reported that the Russian, US and French negotiators from the OSCE were expected to visit Armenia and Azerbaijan by the end of the year to provide fresh impetus for the Nagornyy Karabakh peace process (Middle East News Items). |
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Dec 21, 1999 |
At a meeting with the Armenian diaspora in France, Armen Khachturyan, speaker of the Armenian parliament, said that the Karabakh problem must be resolved through a referendum. This idea was met with a sharp reaction in Azerbaijani political circles (BBC). |
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Dec 27, 1999 |
Mais Safarli, leader of the Azerbaijan Compatriot Party, said that Russia was carrying out its new "southern doctrine." Safarli pointed to Russia's military campaign in Chechnya, as well as to the propagandist anti-Georgian and anti-Azerbaijani pressure. Safarli said that Moscow would likely undertake steps to restore its lost influence in the south Caucasus once the war in Chechnya ended (BBC). |
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Feb 23, 2000 |
During his visit to the United States, President Aliyev of Azerbaijan discussed issues related to facilitation of bilateral relations, resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, and joint exploitation of the Caspian energy resources. The Azerbaijani president was in Washington at the same time Armenia formed a military alliance with Belarus. Aliyev expressed regret over the increasing militarization of the Caucasus (Defense and Security). |
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Mar 1, 2000 |
The Karabakh Liberation Organization (OOK) was set up in Baku as a group demanding a military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. According to its leader Atif Nagiyev, the group had an active membership of about 10,000 but sympathizers numbered many times more. The OOK incorporated no military bodies but wanted the state to move troops against the Armenians. |
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Mar 23, 2000 |
It was reported that attackers shot and wounded the President of Nagorno-Karabakh. The President's rival was immediately detained. Armenian president Kocharyan condemned the attack (The Moscow Times). |
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Mar 30, 2000 |
The leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation "Dashnaktsutyun", Vahan Ovanesyan, said that the assassination attempt against the Nagornyy Karabakh president gave rise to serious concerns about stability in Armenia as a whole. The Armenian parliamentary Commission on Defense, National security and Interior Affairs that Ovanesyan headed, set about to draft a bill on combating terrorism (BBC). |
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Mar 31, 2000 |
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan suggested a 3+3+2 collective security structure for the Caucuses, which would include the three South Caucasus countries: Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan; their neighbors, Iran, Turkey and Russia; and the European Union and the USA. Addressing the Georgian parliament, Kocharyan said that all three South Caucasus countries had agreed on the need to establish a collective security system (BBC). |
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Apr 4, 2000 |
An article in the Armenian newspaper Azg noted that the people of Karabakh had voted for independence in a 1991 referendum but the region had not yet adopted a constitution. The article noted that not a single country in the world, not even Armenia, recognized Karabakh as an independent state. It was recalled that the Karabakh movement originally called for Karabakh to be part of Armenia (BBC). |
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Apr 13, 2000 |
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said that his country was ready for talks with Azerbaijan. Oskanyan denied that Armenia was preparing for a new war with Azerbaijan stressing that Yerevan’s top priorities were the promotion of regional cooperation and a European orientation in the country's development (BBC). |
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Apr 21, 2000 |
The US increased aid to Nagornyy Karabakh. This aid program was designed to also help people in Azerbaijan and Armenia who suffered from armed conflict. For about three years, the US and Armenia were the only countries officially extending aid to the government of Nagornyy Karabakh (Russian Press Digest). |
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Apr 24, 2000 |
Ex-Aide to the Azerbaijani president Vafa Guluzade suggested that Turkey should station troops in Azerbaijan to counteract the Russian military presence in Armenia. Guluzade noted that having taken revenge on Chechnya, Russia was turning its attention to Georgia and Azerbaijan (BBC). |
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May 9, 2000 |
It was reported that representatives from the Minsk Group would meet to discuss new peace proposals for the enclave. Washington's representative to the Group, Carey Cavanaugh, said that international organizations would also meet to discuss allocations of resources to the war-torn region (AFP). |
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May 26, 2000 |
In contrast to its position on Armenia, the Council of Europe's legal committee meeting in Cyprus did not advise allowing Azerbaijan admittance to the organization (BBC). |
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Jun 1, 2000 |
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan said that the "common state" idea underlying the latest proposals by the OSCE Minsk Group made it possible to optimize the interests of both sides and provided realistic possibilities to move forward in negotiations. Kocharyan noted that the idea of a common state had been accepted by Armenia and the Nagornyy Karabakh republic, but not by Azerbaijan (BBC). |
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Jun 18, 2000 |
Arkady Gukassain, nominal president of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, called for talks with Azeri President Heydar Aliyev to resolve the conflict (AFP). |
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Jun 18, 2000 |
It was reported that parliamentary elections in the breakaway Nagorno Karabakh territory began without incident (AFP). |
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Jun 20, 2000 |
It was reported that the principal themes of upcoming talks in Moscow with President Geidar Aliyev would be ways to settle the Karabakh problem and the situation in the Caucasus. Aliyev flew to Moscow to attend the CIS summit. Aliyev intended to continue his talks with President Kocharyan and to meet President Vladimir Putin (ITAR-TASS). |
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Jun 20, 2000 |
The president of the electoral committee said that the Artsak Democratic Movement took the lead after legislative elections in Nagorno-Karabakh. Artsak secured 13 out of 33 parliamentary seats, the Dashnak party nine, and Armenakan party one (AFP). |
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