Conciliation Resources, a London based non governmental organisation with long experience of work in the Caucasus Region has just published a report incorporating different views on the issue of displacement resulting from the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
Turkey is adamant in pushing forward the Samsun Ceyhan Pipeline despite Russian procrastination. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told Hurriyet Daily News that Russian companies were not the only determining factor.
5 September: The new European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, Philippe Lefort, has arrived in Baku at the start of his first visit to the region.
3 September: The President of the self declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic stated in an address marking the 20th anniversary of the unrecognised entity that the continuous strengthening of the Army and defence capability is a "pivotal goal" (agen
The leaders of former Soviet Republics are meeting in the Tadjik Capital in what was supposed to be a celebratory summit marking the 20th anniversary of the international grouping. But the absence of the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Belarus and Uzbekistan is casting a shadow on the meeting.
2 September: Russian President Dimitry Medvedev has arrived in Tadjikistan where on Saturday he will participate in a meeting of the heads of State of the CIS (agencies)
Medevedev will also have bilateral talks with Tadjik leaders, and will participate in quadropartite talks with the Presidents of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tadjikistan.