Parliament Vice-Speaker Samvel Nikonyan told Russia's slon.ru website that Yerevan has not recognized the rebel region so far "only due to its respect for the international community's stance and the negotiating process." "But for us, for any Armenian,

Apoyo a las emergencias en Darfur, Afganistán y Mauritania

Dentro del apartado de emergencias se han liberado sendas partidas de 200.000, 100.000 y 256.000 euros para hacer frente a las demandas de ayuda formuladas por las Cáritas locales en Darfur

Azerbaijani President's Office international relations department head Novruz Mammadov spoke in an interview with several Azerbaijani media outlets.

Q.: How do you assess the last Munich Meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents, as well as the Athens negotiations?

A.: The Munich meeting between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents became the sixth one held between the presidents of two countries in 2009. It testifies the intensification of the negotiation process.

In general, the Azerbaijani president

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No.1257/96 of 20 June 1996 concerning humanitarian aid (1) , and in particular Article 2(f) and Article 15(2) thereof; Whereas:

(1) South Caucasus regularly experiences a wi de range of natural disasters such as landslides, mudslides, floods and earthquakes;

(2) Local communities are very vulnerable to all these disasters. Armenia, Georgia an d Azerbaijan capacity to cope

- Azeri leader warns of last chance, possible force

MUNICH, Germany, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan and Armenia hold talks on Sunday on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, with Azeri ally Turkey pressing for progress before it seals an historic rapprochement with neighbouring Armenia.

Oil-producing Azerbaijan has raised the stakes, warning the meeting of presidents in Munich will be "decisive" and that its troops are ready to take back the mountain territory by force unless there is a breakthrough soon in negotiations.

* Turkey wants progress to seal thaw with Armenia

By Matt Robinson

TBILISI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold talks on Sunday on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, France said on Thursday, with Turkey pressing for progress before it seals a rapprochement with Armenia.

Fifteen years of mediation have failed to produce a peace deal on the Armenian-populated mountain territory, at the heart of a key transit region for oil and gas to the West.

But a historic thaw between Armenia and

Rome, November 11 2009 - Rising global hunger figures mask the fact that 31 out of 79 countries monitored by FAO have registered a significant decline in the number of undernourished people since the early nineties.

A report published today-entitled Pathways to Success-highlights the progress made by 16 of these countries that have already achieved the

A handful of Armenians live off scrap metal and pipes plundered from the ruins of this Azeri town, razed in 1993 as Christian Armenian forces in the mountain region of Nagorno-Karabakh fought to split from Muslim Azerbaijan.

Largely forgotten by the outside world since, the remote territory is now the centre of diplomatic attention because it could torpedo a fragile peace deal between historic enemies Armenia and Turkey.

By Karine Ohanian in Stepanakert (CRS No. 518, 06-Nov-09)

The children's home in Nagorny Karabakh is a happy place where the children joke with visitors, but its existence reveals strains in society 15 years after the tiny territory's independence war with Azerbaijan ended.

Karabakh, which declared independence from Azerbaijan unilaterally in 1992, had no orphanages in Soviet times. The war in which it broke free from Baku, however, left many children unsupported.