8 August: Diplomatic activity around the Karabakh conflict settlement process will continue this week. Russian President Dimitri Medvedev will meet Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev in Sochi tomorrow. Later in the week he will meet Armenian President Serz
“Bummer!” – this is how the Azeri president would have qualified the Russian president’s straight-from-the-shoulder remark on Nagorno-Karabakh in his interview with Russia Today and First Informational Caucasus TV channels and Echo of Moscow radio company with regard to Saakashvili’s military speculation in August 2008.
The Georgia-Russia War of August 2008 lasted only five days. By the end nothing much had changed on the ground. Yet the political fallout from the war has implications in the rest of the Caucasus and beyond.
“We will show the appropriate reaction if any further step is taken,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu told reporters. He said the Greek Cypriot administration does not have the right to embark on oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean unless the Cyprus issue is resolved and a government representing the entire island is formed.
6 August: Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliev will meet Russian President Medvedev in Sochi on 9 August. Discussions are likely to focus on the Karabakh conflict settlement process (agencies)