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01 Jan 2001

Armenia + 1 other
Azerbaijani president says resolving Nagorno-Karabakh main task

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— Agence France-Presse
BAKU, Jan 1 (AFP) - Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev said Monday that resolving the dispute between Baku and Yerevan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh was his country's most important task.

"We are making every effort to solve this problem, as a result of which about a million Azerbaijanis have become refugees and 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory has been occupied by Armenia," he said in a televised New Year's address.

The president added that he was sure that Azerbaijan would recover the territory and the refugees would be able to return home.

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31 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Azerbaijan's Displaced People Seek a New Life

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— UN Development Programme
Saatli, Azerbaijan - From a distance, the long lines of rusty railroad cars immobilized on the tracks in the village of Saatli seem to belong to a movie set seeking to recreate a bygone time in history. There is no station in sight, just two old trains going nowhere. But a closer look reveals a different reality.
Between the two lines of boxcars, a young woman wearing a headscarf is hanging clothes to dry, children play on the tracks while 70-year-old Alamgulu Guliyev sits on the narrow steps outside a wagon, lost in thought. Like many displaced families, Guliyev,
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27 Dec 2000

Armenia
Special Report: Serious Food And Seed Shortages Emerge In Armenia

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— Food and Agriculture Organization
Severe drought during the summer has sharply reduced foodcrop production, devastated range vegetation for livestock grazing and seriously curtailed other sources of feed, including grains, potatoes and crop residues. The drastic shortage in animal feed is causing under-nutrition in livestock, which may result in a significant increase in animal mortality during the cold winter months. Distress slaughter of animals has already begun and meat prices are decreasing. The bulk of livestock are held by households, and apart from their direct contribution to rural
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18 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Nagorno-Karabakh: Hint Of Turkish Role In Peace Talks Raises Questions

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
By Jean-Christophe Peuch
International efforts to resolve the dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave appear to be gaining momentum. Mediators from the U.S., France and Russia visited the capitals of the Caucasus last week to explore ways of invigorating the talks, which were sidetracked last year after the killings in the Armenian parliament. RFE/RL correspondent Jean-Christophe Peuch reports that one proposal -- which so far lacks the backing of all major participants -- would give Turkey a greater involvement in the process.

Prague, 18 December 2000 (RFE/RL)

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15 Dec 2000

Guinea + 15 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 50 of 2000

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— World Food Programme
This report includes: (A) West Africa Coastal: (1) Guinea, (2) Sierra Leone, (3) Liberia (B) West and Central Asia: (1) Afghanistan, (2) Tajikistan, (3) Pakistan, (4) Georgia, (5) Armenia (C) Great Lakes Region: Rwanda, Tanzania (D) Sudan (E) Southern Africa: Angola, Namibia, Mozambique (F) Russian Federation (Northern Caucasus) (G) Laos (H) Resources situation
From Francesco Strippoli, Senior Humanitarian Adviser. Available on the Internet on the WFP Home Page (www.wfp.org), or by e-mail from Zlatan.Milisic@wfp.org. For information on resources,
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15 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
How close is a settlement of the Karabakh conflict?

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
By Liz Fuller
The recent visit by the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group to Ankara, Yerevan, Stepanakert, and Baku has again raised hopes that a solution to the Karabakh conflict may be within reach. The co-chairs apparently hope that the promise of substantial economic benefits could induce the conflict parties to rethink their positions and show a greater readiness for compromise than they have done in the past. And the stopover of two of the three co-chairs in Ankara highlights the role envisaged by the international community for Turkey in providing economic
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15 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Azeri, Armenian defense ministers seek to reduce tensions

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— Agence France-Presse
BAKU, Dec 15 (AFP) - Azeri Defense Minister Safar Abiyev and his Armenian counterpart Serge Sarkissian held talks Friday in a bid to lower tensions between the two Caucasus rivals, officials said.

The two ministers also "discussed ways to strengthen the ceasefire regime," an Azeri defense ministry spokesman said. It was the second meeting between the men on the border between their two countries.

In Yerevan, the Armenian defense minister said he hoped that the meeting would help "in the future to eliminate

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14 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Armenia, U.S. sign military cooperation agreement

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Senior U.S. and Armenian military officials signed a cooperation agreement for 2001 in Yerevan on 13 December, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. The agreement covers 19 "engagement activities" and will help the Armenian military to prepare for possible humanitarian operations and familiarize its top brass with the status and structure of armed forces in the West. An analogous agreement with Azerbaijan will be signed on 14 December. General Charles Simpson, who signed the agreement on behalf of the U.S., told journalists that Washington has no intention
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13 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Armenia rejects help from Turkey to settle Nagorno Karabakh

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— Agence France-Presse
YEREVAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - Armenian politicians rejected Wednesday US suggestions that Turkey could help settle the 12-year conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh by helping the region mount an economic recovery.

Ankara "cannot be objective" towards Armenia, the chairman of the foreign affairs commission, Ovanes Ovanesian, told AFP.

"Turkey has shown in recent years that it does not have a neutral policy in the region. Under those conditions, it could not play a positive role in any settlement," said a spokesman for the nationalist Dashnaktsutiun party, Gegam Manukian.

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13 Dec 2000

Armenia + 2 others
NGO Coalition Tackles Conflict in CIS

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— EurasiaNet
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, ethnic and political conflict has stood in the way of reform in the Newly Independent States. The NGO Working Group on Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution was formed in 1998 to help build constructive relationships and assist in peacekeeping efforts in the region. Andre Kamenshikov is the director of Nonviolence International - one of the NGOs that form the Working Group coalition - and the coordinator for NGO support of the Working Group. He spoke with EurasiaNet about the organization's plans in Central
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The Central Eurasia Project aims, through its website, meetings, papers, and grants, to foster a more informed debate about the social, political and economic developments of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It is a program of the Open Society Institute-New York. The Open Society Institute-New York is a private operating and grantmaking foundation that promotes the development of open societies around the world by supporting educational, social, and legal reform, and by encouraging alternative approaches to complex and controversial issues. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the position of the Open Society Institute and are the sole responsibility of the author or authors.

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13 Dec 2000

Armenia + 2 others
Russia: Moscow Still Seen As A Threat To Stability In South Caucasus

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
By Jean-Christophe Peuch
For years, Russia's policy toward the South Caucasus has been widely regarded as chaotic, undermining Moscow's relations with the region's independent nations. Vladimir Putin's presidency so far has not changed things much. RFE/RL correspondent Jean-Christophe Peuch spoke with Western, Russian, and Caucasus analysts and observers, who analyze the state of Russia-Caucasus relations.

Prague, 13 December 2000 (RFE/RL) -- When Vladimir Putin officially took over from President Boris Yeltsin in March, many observers believed that Russia would at last pursue a more

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12 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Travel to Ankara, Nakhichevan, Armenia...

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Following talks in Ankara on 9 December with Turkish leaders, the U.S. and French co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group travelled the following day to the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan, where they were joined by their Russian counterpart. The three men then flew to Yerevan, where they met on 11 December with Armenian President Robert Kocharian to discuss how to resolve the Karabakh conflict, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. French co-chair Jean-Jacques Gaillard termed that meeting "encouraging," while U.S. co-chair Carey Cavanuagh told
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11 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Armenian president holds talks with OSCE over Nagorny-Karabakh

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— Agence France-Presse
YEREVAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - Armenian President Robert Kocharian held talks here on Monday with the co-chairman of the OSCE's Minsk group about the fate of Nagorny-Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.

The Minsk group, headed by the United States, Russia and France, has been tasked by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) with finding a solution to the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over the enclave.

More than 30,OOO people died and nearly a million people were displaced after the etnic Armenian majority in Nagorny-Karabakh

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08 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Armenian Foreign Ministry rejects Azerbaijani version of recent Karabakh talks

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Vilayat Guliev, did not discuss during their recent talks in Vienna the possibility of resurrecting the first of the Karabakh peace proposals made by the OSCE Minsk Group in 1997, Noyan Tapan reported on 7 December, citing an Armenian Foreign Ministry statement published in "Azg." In a recent interview with Mediamax News Agency, which observers claim is controlled by Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian, Guliev was quoted as saying that Oskanian had proposed
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05 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 15 others
UN Conference calls for additional efforts to address desertification and drought worldwide

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— UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Bonn, 5 December 2000 - "We are ready to see if progress has been achieved in combating desertification worldwide", said today Mr. Hama Arba Diallo, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), few days before the opening of the fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP-4), from 11-22 December in Bonn, Germany.
About 2,000 delegates from over 170 countries are expected to arrive in Bonn to attend the Conference, including Heads of State and of Government, ministers, representatives of intergovernmental
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04 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Karabakh: Armenian, Azerbaijani Presidents meet

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Robert Kocharian and Heidar Aliev met in Minsk late on 30 November on the sidelines of the CIS summit to discuss the Karabakh conflict, Armenpress and Turan reported. It was their fifth such meeting this year. Aliev termed the talks "constructive," while Kocharian said that agreement was reached "to shift the negotiating process to another format," which, he added, would provide for "more active contacts." He did not elaborate. Kocharian stressed the need to reach a permanent settlement of the conflict before 2003, when presidential
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03 Dec 2000

Armenia + 1 other
ACT Appeal Armenia: Emergency Drought Assistance EUAR-01

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— Action by Churches Together International
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Appeal Target: US$ 103,670
Geneva, 3 December 2000

Dear Colleagues,

The severe drought plaguing Central and South Asia, the Middle East and Caucasus has had a dramatic impact on the overall humanitarian situation in Armenia. Extremely high temperatures and low precipitation prevailing in the summer months have led to a continued and intensified drought situation.

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01 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 8 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 48 of 2000

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— World Food Programme
This report includes: (A) West and Central Asia: (1) Afghanistan; (2) Pakistan; (3) Armenia (B) Angola (including Angolan refugee situation in Namibia) (C) Horn of Africa: (1) Kenya; (2) Eritrea (D) Tanzania (E) East Timor (F) Bangladesh (G) DPRKorea
From Francesco Strippoli, Senior Humanitarian Adviser. Available on the Internet on the WFP Home Page (www.wfp.org), or by e-mail from Zlatan.Milisic@wfp.org. For information on resources, donors are requested to contact Valerie.Sequeira@wfp.org at WFP Rome, telephone
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30 Nov 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Boeing and Northwest medical teams ship emergency medical supplies to Azerbaijan

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— Northwest Medical Teams
Northwest Medical Teams has packed a Seattle-bound tractor trailer with 11,000 pounds of donated medical supplies destined for war-torn Azerbaijan, one of the former republics of the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). Border conflicts with neighboring Armenia continue to take a toll on the people of the region.
The medical products are valued at $269,000. Seattle-based Boeing will provide free air freight for the shipment (scheduled to depart Monday, December 4).

"We're pleased to have Boeing as our partner to reach out with support for these suffering people,"

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29 Nov 2000

Armenia + 1 other
Karabakh: Armenian, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers meet...

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Vartan Oskanian and Vilayat Guliev met in Vienna on 28 November on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting to discuss the prospects for speeding up the search for a solution to the Karabakh conflict, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reported. Oskanian told RFE/RL that he and Guliev focused on the possibility of another face-to-face meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents on the sidelines of the 1 December CIS summit in Minsk. He also said that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen will visit Baku, Stepanakert, and Yerevan next week. LF
...CALL FOR SOLUTION TO KARABAKH
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