Resettlement scheme angers Azerbaijan, which sees it as an obstruction to an eventual peace deal.

Some of the Armenians fleeing the conflict in Syria are being welcomed as settlers by the authorities Nagorny Karabakh.

Robert Matevosyan, head of the resettlement department at Nagorny Karabakh’s Kashatagh district government, says 25 families have moved there since the civil war started in Syria.

Local government in western district says it lacks the funds to carry out repairs.

By Jamshid Bakhtiyar - Caucasus
CRS Issue 663, 5 Nov 12

A series of earthquakes and floods in recent years has left many houses close to collapse in western Azerbaijan’s Goranboy district. Residents say they cannot afford to repair their homes, or to move elsewhere.

After completing his visit to Zagatala District, President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Gakh District.

The President visited a new private house built for Abdulla Mammadov in the earthquake-affected Gulluk village of Gakh District. A. Mammadov’s previous house became unusable in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Azerbaijan’s north-western region in early May of this year.

After the disaster of the Azarbaiejan earthquake, the Red Crescent emergency Treatment teams had visited the affected areas and began to providing medical services.

in according to the report of Iranian Red Crescent public relation: 7248 people benefited by medical service, 3539 people profited by attendance service, 2768 people profited by deliberation services. Also in this term 2111 health service and 338 dietetics provided by these Red Crescent teams.

07/20/2012 11:38 GMT

STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan, July 20, 2012 (AFP) - The unrecognised region of Nagorny-Karabakh re-elected leader Bako Sahakyan, amid growing tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over its status, officials said Friday.

Sahakyan received 66.7 percent of the vote while his main rival, retired army general Vitaliy Balasanian, got 32.5 percent, according to the preliminary results published on the central election commission's website.

Turnout was 73.4 percent in Thursday's vote, it added.

By Sarah Oughton

Despite the 1994 ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the two armies exchange fire almost daily over the disputed Nagorny-Karabakh territory, making life difficult for those living along the contested border.

Nana Chukhua, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) economic security delegate in Azerbaijan, talks about the challenges of living and working in such a context:

What is life like for these people living under the threat of gunfire?

Residents of Baku, a handsome city awash in petrodollars, have been given something new to worry about by earthquake forecasters from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.

While buildings in the Azerbaijani capital are soaring ever upwards, seismic tension down below is building ever deeper, and could cause a devastating earthquake, MIT scientists announced in a June 14 statement.

06/06/2012 13:49 GMT

by Jim Mannion

BAKU, June 6, 2012 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday warned of possible "disastrous consequences" after a flare-up of deadly violence between ex-Soviet enemies Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Clinton held talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku as the reported death toll in gunbattles between the two neighbours this week rose to nine amid the worst clashes since 2010.

Azerbaijan, Baku, June 1 / Trend M.Aliyev /

Zagatala, which in early May was hit by a strong earthquake, will have new homes built and delapidated homes restored, Azerbaijani Emergencies Minister Kamaladdin Heydarov told reporters on Friday.

He said houses that cannot be restored will be demolished and rebuilt.