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UN Human Rights Council calls for unimpeded access to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

23 March 2019

Addressing the Council meeting in Geneva, ahead of the vote on Friday (22 March), Georgia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Lasha Darsalia, said that the recent death of Irakli Kvaratskhelia whilst in detention in Abkhazia highlighted the urgency of the matter.

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Opinion: Ahmad Alili says there is still hope in the wisdom of the leaders and their ability to lead their nations out of conflict to peace.

21 March 2019

Baku softened its rhetoric on Karabakh following the velvet revolution in Armenia. Nikol Pashinyan's statements however have disappointed Baku at a time when its room for manoeuvre is limited.

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Aliyev: "Conflict resolution will lead to peace and stability in the region"

20 March 2019

In the address on the occasion of the Novruz holiday the president of Azerbaijan said his country has entered a new period of reforms. "Reforms will be further deepened. There is no alternative to that. Political reforms, economic reforms, reforms in the social sphere, reforms in the judicial system"

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End of an era in Kazakhstan after Nazarbayev announces his resignation

20 March 2019

In recent years Nazarbayev played a role of father figure in the councils of the institutions that succeeded the Soviet Union, such as the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation and the Eurasian Economic Union.

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Pashinyan: "We will not refuse to dialogue, and we will carefully listen to the counterarguments of our colleagues"

19 March 2019

Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan held a press conference in Yerevan on Tuesday, during which he reviewed progress in the work of his government and addressed a number of topical issues, including future negotiations to resolve the Karabakh conflict.

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Opinion: A paradigm based on the Madrid principles is not acceptable, neither for Armenia nor for Karabakh

18 March 2019

Ahead of the expected Armenia-Azerbaijan summit, Benyamin Poghosyan argues in this op-ed for commonspace.eu, that the negotiating paradigm based on the Madrid principles is doomed.

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Dozens of opposition activists pardoned by presidential order in Azerbaijan

17 March 2019

"In essence this is an olive branch to the government's critics", commonspace.eu political editor said in a comment. "Its significance should not be understated. President Aliyev has in the last weeks been preparing the country for major changes. This presidential pardon may well be the opening shot of more to come".

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Reports of incidents and cease fire violations in Karabakh conflict zone and on Armenia-Azerbaijan border

16 March 2019

Both sides accuse each other of using heavy weapons in incidents in recent days. On Saturday morning an Azerbaijani citizen was wounded in unexplained circumstances on the Armenian side of the international border.

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The president of Azerbaijan opens the 7th Global Forum in Baku

15 March 2019

Addressing the forum, president Ilham Aliyev accused Armenia of trying to change the format of the Karabakh peace negotiations. he rejected these attempts as "unacceptable and ineffective"

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UN Human Rights Council calls for unimpeded access to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Opinion: Ahmad Alili says there is still hope in the wisdom of the leaders and their ability to lead their nations out of conflict to peace.

Aliyev: "Conflict resolution will lead to peace and stability in the region"

End of an era in Kazakhstan after Nazarbayev announces his resignation

Pashinyan: "We will not refuse to dialogue, and we will carefully listen to the counterarguments of our colleagues"

Opinion: A paradigm based on the Madrid principles is not acceptable, neither for Armenia nor for Karabakh

Dozens of opposition activists pardoned by presidential order in Azerbaijan

Reports of incidents and cease fire violations in Karabakh conflict zone and on Armenia-Azerbaijan border

The president of Azerbaijan opens the 7th Global Forum in Baku