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EU issues statement on Azerbaijan presidential elections
13 April 2018
"The EU looks forward to continuing dialogue and working closely with Azerbaijan, including with a view to addressing fundamental issues of democracy and human rights during the renewed term in office of the President, for the benefit of the people of Azerbaijan and EU-Azerbaijan relations."
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International Observation Mission critical of Azerbaijani presidential election
12 April 2018
In their preliminary report the mission made up of representatives of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the OSCE and the Council of Europe, and of ODIHR, concluded that the election lacked genuine competition.
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War or peace in Karabakh? In Brussels experts discuss 2016 escalation, and future scenarios
5 April 2018
Risks of further violence in and around Karabakh remain high, but experts also see some opportunities for peace in the domestic and international context
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Construction starts in Mersin on Turkey's first nuclear plant
3 April 2018
President Putin of Russia, who begins an official visit to Ankara today, will, together with Turkish president Recip Tayip Erdogan, join the ground breaking cermeony by video link from Ankara.
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Monday Commentary: The South Caucasus is hosting the world
2 April 2018
World leaders will converge on Baku and Yerevan over the next months for the summits of La Francophonie and the Non Aligned Movement. A wonderful development, writes Dennis Sammut, but it would be even better if South Caucasus leaders can also meet together to address the challenges of the region
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ODIHR issues interim report on forthcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan
1 April 2018
Inaccuracy of the voters list, restrictive political environment, and absence of a genuinely competitive contest, were some of the issues raised by interlocoteurs of the OSCE-ODIHR Election Observation Mission, according to its interim report published on 29 March.
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Opinion: Iran and the US are slowly heading towards collision
31 March 2018
US attempts to change the provisions of the nuclear deal with Iran will intensify over the next months, but things are only likely to come to a head in 2019 says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed
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Opinion: The spectre of authoritarianism in Eurasia
30 March 2018
By accepting the post of prime minister Serzh Sargsyan joins the club of authoritarian leaders in the Eurasian Economic Union and the CSTO, argues Alexander Petrosyan in this op-ed.
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Georgia expels Russian diplomat over the Salisbury affair
30 March 2018
Georgia has become the first South Caucasus country to join the diplomatic rebuff of Russia spearheaded by the US, the UK and the EU in retaliation for the chemical poison attack in the British town of Salisbury earlier this month.