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31 Dec 2002

Afghanistan + 31 others
ICRC Overview of Operations 2003

Report
— ICRC
This document supplements the ICRC's Headquarters Appeal 2003and contains:
  • an overview of the ICRC's operations in 2003
  • a description of its presence in the field
  • a breakdown of its operational organization
  • a description of its target populations
  • a concise description of its programmes
  • a brief description of its 63 delegations
  • overall budget amounts
  • overall budget and budgets by programme for each delegation
The ICRC's operations in 2003 and the respective budget figures are presented in detail
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30 Dec 2002

Armenia + 1 other
Karabakh Commander warns Azerbaijan against launching offensive

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Lieutenant General Seyran Ohanian, who is commander in chief of the armed forces of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, on 27 December warned Azerbaijan that the enclave's army is "better prepared than ever before" and "ready to repulse the enemy" and carry out a successful counteroffensive, according to RFE/RL's Armenian Service and Mediamax, as cited by Groong. Azerbaijani officials, including President Heidar Aliev and Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiev, have repeatedly hinted that Azerbaijan might resort to arms to bring Karabakh
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20 Dec 2002

Côte d'Ivoire + 5 others
Commission adopts five new humanitarian aid decisions worth more than €5.6 million

Report
— European Commission Humanitarian Aid department
IP/02/1942
Brussels, 20 December 2002

The European Commission has recently taken humanitarian decisions concerning Côte d'Ivoire (€1.5 million), Georgia (€1.3 million), Armenia (€0.5 million), Senegal (€0.75 million) and Thailand (€1.565 million). The assistance is channelled through the Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), which comes under the authority of Commissioner Poul Nielson.

Côte d'Ivoire - €1.5 million

An emergency decision has been taken to help people in Côte d'Ivoire affected by the internal conflict. Fighting

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20 Dec 2002

Afghanistan + 10 others
ICBL Landmine Update Dec 2002

Report
— International Campaign to Ban Landmines


The Landmine Update is the International Campaign to Ban Landmines quarterly newsletter. This edition is followed by a calendar of upcoming events (available online). To date, 130 countries have ratified the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and an additional 16 have signed it. The most recent accessions are Afghanistan (11 September), Comoros (19 September) and Central African Republic (8 November), while recent ratifications include Cameroon (19 September) and Gambia (23 September).

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19 Dec 2002

Armenia + 6 others
Balkans/Caucasus: News from the Council of Europe field offices Nov 2002

Report
— Council of Europe


SG/Inf(2002)53 19 December 2002
November 2002 in Tirana

Political overview

NATO Membership Prospects

1. The North Atlantic Alliance, at its Prague summit, did not invite Albania to become a member. While seven other ex-communist countries have started Accession Talks, Albania was considered not to be ready at this stage. However, the NATO Secretary General, during his visit to the country, confirmed that Albania remains a potential candidate to be considered at a next summit.

Electoral Reform

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18 Dec 2002

Armenia
Coopération technique, financière et humanitaire: adoption de l'accord-cadre entre la Suisse et l'Arménie

Report
— Government of Switzerland
Le Conseil fédéral a approuvé l'accord-cadre sur la coopération technique, financière et humanitaire avec le gouvernement arménien.

L'accord-cadre entre la Suisse et l'Arménie délimite les conditions de la coopération et la soumet au respect des droits de l'homme ainsi qu'aux principes démocratiques. Il énumère les formes possibles de la coopération ainsi que ses secteurs d'application, définit les instruments de la Direction du développement et de la coopération (DDC) et du Secrétariat d'Etat à l'économie (seco), règle les principes de la

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17 Dec 2002

Armenia
NATO official hails increasingly close cooperation with Armenia

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
A NATO delegation headed by Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Joseph Ralston met in Yerevan on 16 December with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian, and Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau and Noyan Tapan reported. Ralston acknowledged the "tremendous progress" made in Armenia-NATO contacts over the past few years. Kocharian, too, gave a positive assessment of relations and expressed the hope that Ralston's visit will mark "a new step" in Armenia's relations with the
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16 Dec 2002

Armenia + 6 others
CIS-7 poverty reduction strategy forum sees new opportunity to reduce poverty

Report
— World Bank
The third Forum on Poverty Reduction Strategies for CIS-7 countries-Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan-was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan during December 11-13, 2002.
The Forum provided a well-received opportunity to share experiences in designing and implementing poverty reduction strategies. Most of the countries are close to finalizing, or have already finalized their strategies. Therefore the Forum allowed participants-especially the teams responsible for Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)-to focus
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15 Dec 2002

Armenia + 2 others
Map of South Caucasus

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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15 Dec 2002

Armenia + 2 others
InterAction Member Activity Report: The South Caucasus

Report
— InterAction
Background Summary
The three countries of the South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia - were union republics of the Soviet Union before gaining their independence in 1991. Since that time they have all dealt with political and ethnic turmoil, economic collapse, and war. The crowning achievements of these countries over the course of a difficult transition period have been the preservation of independence and the establishment of peace, however tenuous.

Georgia has endured an especially tumultuous first decade of independence. President Eduard Shevardnadze came to power

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09 Dec 2002

Armenia + 1 other
Iran to export electricity to Azerbaijan and Armenia

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Abdulhussein Fazlollahi, deputy head for coordination and management of Iran's Power Generation and Transmission Organization (Tavanir), said on 8 December that Iran is to export 360 megawatts of power to Azerbaijan and Armenia to alleviate their winter energy shortage, IRNA reported. Fazlollahi added that Iran imported the same amount of electricity from those two Caucasus republics during the summer. Fazlollahi predicted that up to 500 megawatts of electricity will be transferred to Azerbaijan once new transmission lines become available. BS
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09 Dec 2002

Armenia + 1 other
Nagorno-Karabakh: Statement by Azerbaijan at the 10th OSCE Ministerial Council (A/57/638-S/2002/1344)

Report
— UN Security Council
A/57/638-S/2002/1344
General Assembly
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 22 (l)
Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations: cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Security Council
Fifty-seventh year

Letter dated 9 December 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan addressed to the Secretary-General

I have the honour to transmit herewith the text of a statement by His Excellency Mr. Vilayat Guliyev, Minister

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06 Dec 2002

Afghanistan + 31 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 49 of 2002

Report
— World Food Programme


This report includes:
A) Global Alert

B) Middle East Region: (1) Palestinian Territories

C) Asia Region: (1) Democratic People's Republic of Korea

D) West Africa Region: (1) Côte d'Ivoire (2) Liberia (3) Sierra Leone (4) Guinea, (5) Guinea Bissau (6) Mauritania

E) Eastern and Central Africa Region: (1) Ethiopia, (2) Somalia, (3) Eritrea, (4) Djibouti, (5) Burundi

F) Southern Africa Region: (1) Regional overview, (2) Lesotho, (3) Malawi, (4) Mozambique, (5) Zambia, (6) Zimbabwe, (7) Angola

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05 Dec 2002

Armenia
Armenia: NRC country programmes

Report
— Norwegian Refugee Council
The Norwegian Refugee Council has the following goals for its work in Armenia:
  • Promote integration of refugees from Azerbaijan who are not expected to return to their country

  • Contribute to voluntary return of internally displaced persons to their conflict-struck villages

  • Contribute to improving education and introduction of human rights as a subject in schools
This is what we are doing:
  • Rehabilitating homes and helping refugees who want to get Armenian nationality

  • Map out the situation for people who
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02 Dec 2002

Armenia + 6 others
Balkans/Caucasus: News from the Council of Europe field offices Oct 2002

Report
— Council of Europe


SG/Inf(2002)50 2 December 2002
October 2002 in Tirana

Political Overview

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28 Nov 2002

Armenia + 1 other
Everyday battles of Karabakh war wounded

Report
— Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Karabakh Armenians disabled by the war with Azerbaijan are fighting for their rights.
By Marine Mkrtchian in Stepanakert (CRS No.157, 28-Nov-02)

Eduard Abramian was wounded in 1992 in battles defending his home village of Maraga - spinal cord injures left this healthy, energetic man wheelchair-bound.

In a sense, though, Abramian and his family are very lucky, as he is one of the few disabled veterans of the 1991-4 Nagorny Karabakh war that have received a full course of medical treatment.

Abramian underwent two years' medical

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25 Nov 2002

Armenia + 1 other
Armenian President accuses Azerbaijan of backtracking on Karabakh

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Robert Kocharian said in his address to the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council session in Prague on 22 November that Azerbaijan subsequently rejected a settlement of the Karabakh conflict that the two sides agreed on during talks last year in Paris and Florida, Noyan Tapan and RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. Had Baku not done so, "we would have already been halfway through the implementation of the peace agreement," Kocharian said. Kocharian further stressed Armenia's commitment to deepening ties with NATO and cooperating with the U.S.-led
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21 Nov 2002

Armenia + 1 other
Armenia, Azerbaijan make 'small step' to resolve Karabakh conflict: reports

Report
— Agence France-Presse
BAKU, Nov 21 (AFP) - The heads of state of Armenia and Azerbaijan said Thursday they had made "a small step" towards resolving their long-running conflict over the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh after they met for talks in the Czech capital, Azeri media reported.

The two neighbouring countries both claim the mountainous enclave and are locked in a tense military standoff which is fuelling tension in the already volatile south Caucasus region.

Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Azerbaijan's President Heidar Aliyev met for 90 minutes on the fringes

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21 Nov 2002

Armenia + 1 other
Azerbaijani power showdown looms

Report
— Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Tens of thousands of refugees could be the first to suffer if a row between the government and a Turkish electricity firm over unpaid debts is not resolved.
By Nurlana Gulieva and Leila Amirova in Baku (CRS No.156, 21-Nov-02)

Barmek, the Turkish company running the electricity network in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, is locked in an acrimonious row with the government that could lead to an early termination of its contract and plunge the city's power system into crisis.

On November 15, Huseyn Arabul, the president

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