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	Azerbaijan: Military Has Cash, But No Security Doctrine - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Azerbaijan's failure to develop its two initiatives has led to speculation that there are conflicting strategies among Azerbaijan's military leaders, or even evidence that the country is playing NATO, the United States, and Russia off each other as it tries to curry their favor for defense cooperation.
		Azerbaijani military expert Yasar Jafarli, who heads the Union of Officers of the Reserve, was quoted by echo-az.com on 26 November as saying that he was concerned that the delay in drafting and adopting the two key documents could negatively affect Azerbaijan's relations with NATO.
		Azerbaijan is, after all, still in a state of undeclared war with Armenia, and top officials, including President Aliyev and Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiyev, have repeatedly reserved the right to resort to a new aggression if it proves impossible to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict on Baku's preferred terms.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2006/02/135da300-2b7d-4534-912d-a5703d486b46.html (1529 words)

	Azerbaijan
		Azerbaijan, a nation in the Caucasus of Turkic Muslims, has been an independent republic since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
		Azerbaijan has lost almost 20% of its territory and must support some 750,000 refugees as a result of the conflict.
		Critics of the government of Azerbaijan consider it to be a Kleptocracy.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/az/Azerbaijan.html (157 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Rumsfeld Discusses Tighter Military Ties With Azerbaijan
		Instead, Rumsfeld focused on the growing strategic importance of Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic that has emerged as a key U.S. ally in a region between Iran and Russia that is of increasing concern to Pentagon authorities.
		As a next step, Pentagon officials say they see Azerbaijan, which is on the west coast of the Caspian, enlarging its naval and reconnaissance forces to guard against trafficking in weapons and drugs and against potential transit by terrorists in the region.
		Azerbaijan also factors significantly in Pentagon plans to shift away from the large, permanent facilities in Germany and other European countries, and instead rely on smaller, skeletal bases and other military arrangements, such as rights to use local bases temporarily, in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33186-2003Dec3?language=printer (671 words)

	Index of Economic Freedom 2006 - Azerbaijan
		Azerbaijan's trade policy score is 0.5 point better this year; however, its fiscal burden of government score is 0.3 point worse, and its monetary policy score is 1 point worse.
		According to the World Bank, Azerbaijan's weighted average tariff rate in 2002 (the most recent year for which World Bank data are available) was 6.2 percent, down from the 7.9 percent for 2001 reported in the 2005 Index, based on International Monetary Fund data.
		Azerbaijan's banking system, which consists of 44 banks, including two state-owned banks, is weak, inefficient, and burdened by non-performing loans.
	www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Azerbaijan (1062 words)

	THE EMERGING ARMY IN AZERBAIJAN by Patrick Gorman
		Azerbaijan's military position in Nagorno-Karabakh continued to be seriously undermined during the internecine political struggles between Mutalibov, his supporters, and members of the APF throughout March and April.
		The MVD regiment in Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh was withdrawn during November and December 1991 in conjunction with the reorganization of the MVD and KGB.
		While the transfer of CIS military equipment gave an initial boost to the Azerbaijan military, the defense responsibilities left in the wake of retreating CIS forces threaten to overwhelm the capabilities of the fledgling defense ministry.
	www.zerbaijan.com /azeri/azarmy.htm (3554 words)

	USA plans to expand military presence in Azerbaijan, promises $100mil for Caspian guard \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil ...
		Secondly, the USA is interested in establishing mobile army bases on the territory of Azerbaijan, which is stipulated in the plan to re-deploy US troops in Europe and Asia.
		A lot of experts in Azerbaijan estimate the cooperation between Baku and Washington against the background of intense relations between the USA and Iran.
		Azerbaijan does not have anything against such cooperation: it is afraid of the Iranian ambition, especially when it comes to resources of the Caspian Sea.
	www.energybulletin.net /6074.html (870 words)

	Military Of Azerbaijan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/azerbaijan_country_military.shtml (187 words)

	Azerbaijan Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
		Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory and must support some 800,000 refugees and internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict.
		Azerbaijan shares all the formidable problems of the former Soviet republics in making the transition from a command to a market economy, but its considerable energy resources brighten its long-term prospects.
	www.flagco.com /azerbaijan.shtml (1303 words)

	Military of Azerbaijan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Azerbaijan is also expanding its active forces, now numbering about 95,000, with an additional reserve of 575,000, as well as a "reserve of the reserve" of 1,314,955.
		Azerbaijan is an active member of GUAM, which is a regional organization of four CIS states: Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova.
		Azerbaijan is a member of the Council of Europe and also participates in NATO's Partnership for Peace program, a project created in 1994 to build trust between NATO and European states and the former Soviet Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Azerbaijan (3845 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is incited first of all by the increased militarization of Azerbaijan and the readiness of its leadership to force a military solution of the conflict.
		The militarization of Azerbaijan is characterized with gross violations of all the international obligations it has undertaken according to various protocols and mechanisms of control over arms and military actions, which are adopted and ratified by Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty).
		Azerbaijan’s superiority in attacking armament is compensated with the efficiency (of course, from a military perspective) of the current defensive positions of the armed forces of NKR.
	www.nkr.am /eng/kniga_05.htm (814 words)

	Eurasia Insight - Cadet Protest in Azerbaijan Indicative of Military Tension
		Azerbaijani military and political leaders are downplaying recent upheaval at Azerbaijan’s top military academy, saying the school is again operating on a “normal schedule.” But some observers say the cadet protest is an indicator of serious unrest within the military establishment.
		Though the protest exposed a festering mood of discontent throughout Azerbaijan’s military establishment — all connected with lax discipline, pervasive corruption and abusive behavior by senior officers — political analysts differ on the incident’s implications.
		As for the military, some analysts say that, given current conditions, the army may be prone to future mutinies.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav0912a_pr.shtml (894 words)

	CHRONOLOGY OF MILITARY AND
		The refusal from accepting the legal succession meant termination by Azerbaijan of all legal relations with respect of the territories which were included in the AzSSR in 1921 on the basis of the agreements and covenants which still remain effective.
		Azerbaijan which was backed by Turkey hoped that it could exhort pressure on Karabagh by means of negotiations and speculation of the “oil factor”.
		In essence, the Minsk Group of OSCE returned to the idea of creating the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan only under different historical circumstances when the Armenian people of Azerbaijan had been exiled from their land and many nations, the authentic residents of the area, had disappeared from the ethnic map of the region.
	www.karabagh.am /eng/GlavTem/15XronologiyaC.htm (4350 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		Military cooperation between the U.S. and Azerbaijan has significantly increased in the last few years, mainly due to U.S. assistance to Azerbaijan in the sphere of border security, maritime security and anti-terrorism.
		The increasing military cooperation between Washington and Baku and the recent visits of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to Azerbaijan prompted many speculations that the U.S. was planning to establish military bases in Azerbaijan.
		The intensifying cooperation between the U.S. and Azerbaijan and the integration of official Baku into Euro-Atlantic security institutions have prompted Russia and Iran to pursue “carrot and stick” policies towards Baku to prevent the establishment of U.S. military bases in Azerbaijan.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=2797 (1117 words)

	Iran to Deliver a Missile Blow to Azerbaijan
		In case of Baku's consent to the accommodation of American military bases in the republic, Iran plans to deliver a preventive missile strike on the territory of Azerbaijan, Jelal Muhammedi, a confidant of the new Iranian leader, said in his interview to the Azerbaijan newspaper, Mirror.
		Yerevan does not have to conduct any military actions; it is enough to increase the concentration of its armies on the Azerbaijan border.
		Though the leadership of the Azeri republic constantly increases its military expenditure (by the official data from about $74 million in 1997 up to $300 million in 2005) the true and only guarantor of Baku's security and safety is the United States.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=199 (790 words)

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		Azerbaijani opposition analyst Elxan Mehdiyev has said that the country should mobilize its forces to destroy the Armenian military presence in and around Nagornyy Karabakh, as this is the main requirement for the establishment of peace in the South Caucasus.
		Azerbaijan should launch military operations and destroy the Armenian military force on its territory (he especially stresses this view) and fight this war on Armenian territory to establish peace, since Armenia will not appreciate peace until it realizes the danger of war.
		Until recently the problem was considered to be within the framework of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and our territorial integrity was described as a prerequisite, but now such a condition has been removed, as I stressed.
	www.zerbaijan.com /azeri/elkhan_mehdiyev_military_caucasus.htm (1793 words)

	PUBLIC MOOD IN AZERBAIJAN POINTS TO A NEW WAR - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		Azerbaijan has doubled its military budget to $300 million in 2005 and is expected to double again in 2006, as new oil and gas export profits arrive.
		The survey illustrates that it is not only the Azerbaijani government calling for a military solution in case the negotiations fail, but also a large portion of the general public and IDPs in Azerbaijan believe that the military option may be the only available alternative to change the current status quo.
		Nonetheless, as Azerbaijan and Armenia continue to increase their military expenditures and public opinion in Azerbaijan, especially among IDPs, turns against the OSCE-sponsored mediation process, no one can rule out the possibility of a new war between the two states in the near future.
	www.jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2370302 (832 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - USA plans to expand military presence in Azerbaijan close to Iran
		USA plans to expand military presence in Azerbaijan close to Iran
		The European command of the Defence Department in Stuttgart, Germany, coordinates the efforts of various departments and provides the training for military men to defend the new pipeline.
		It is noteworthy that spokespeople for the US Department of Defence say that the Pentagon apparently wishes to use only runways and sea ports, at which small groups of US military men will guard ammunition depots.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntm51989.htm (738 words)

	Azerbaijan - Early History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As a crossroads of tribal migration and military campaigns, Azerbaijan underwent a series of invasions and was part of several larger jurisdictions before the beginning of the Christian era.
		According to one account, Atropates, a Persian general in Alexander's command, whose name means "protected by fire," lent his name to the region when Alexander made him its governor.
		Another legend explains that Azerbaijan's name derives from the Persian words meaning "the land of fire," a reference either to the natural burning of surface oil deposits or to the oil-fueled fires in temples of the once-dominant Zoroastrian religion.
	countrystudies.us /azerbaijan/4.htm (183 words)

	RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - AZERBAIJAN: OIL PIPELINE, AMERICANS, WAHHABITES
		It did not confirm or deny information about the possible creation of a military bloc consisting of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, a sort of NATO "subsidiary." Some sources assume Ukraine might become a member of the new alliance later.
		That is why Russia attempts to delay the withdrawal of its military bases from Georgia for as long as possible and receive guarantees that the US bases will not replace them in the future.
		Therefore, the growing popularity of wahhabites in Azerbaijan might create serious problems both for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and the plans of future military cooperation between Baku and the West.
	en.rian.ru /analysis/20050525/40413690.html (731 words)

	Asbarez Online - FEBRUARY 4, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		(Azerbaijan's arms imports are 3 percent of total imports; Armenia's are 1.8 percent of total imports) Turkey's arms imports, as a percentage of its total imports, are more than three times higher than Armenia's.
		He was commenting on Azeri President Haydar Aliyev's recent statement that in the realm of Armenian-Russian military cooperation, Azerbaijan should revise its approaches to national security and deploy NATO military bases on its territory.
		Gabrielian pointed out that the re-armament of the Russian military bases in Armenia was stipulated by an agreement and never exceeded the quota established for Armenia by the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty.
	www.asbarez.com /aol/1999/990204.htm (1927 words)

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	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		In Summer 2001, it threatened Azerbaijan’s exploration ships in the Caspian and Foreign Minister Kamil Kharazzi told Baku that it should heed Iran’s warnings “if it knows what is good for it”.
		Nor is it surprising that Washington responded and is assisting Azerbaijan, like Turkey has for years, with training and educating military officers, and training its forces for peacekeeping and drug control operations.
		This domestic crisis, the possibility of terrorists trying to exploit it either for themselves or for Iran’s benefit, or the alternative of an Iranian military operation against Baku, and the energy assets at risk should Azerbaijan fall into crisis, are all proximate causes for the spread of U.S. military influence to Azerbaijan.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=30 (957 words)

	Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ06) - Pallone Opposes Bush Administration Decision to Disregard Azerbaijan-Armenia ...
		During testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in March, Assistant Secretary for State Elizabeth Jones stated that the administration does not have a policy that the military funding levels for Armenia and Azerbaijan be identical and confirmed the administration's request for increased military funding for Azerbaijan.
		The agreement requires that Congress receive prior notification of the "nature and quantity" of any additional assistance to Azerbaijan and the impact it would have on the military balance with Armenia and negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh.
		The United States must be perceived by both Armenia and Azerbaijan as an unbiased and impartial mediator.
	www.house.gov /list/press/nj06_pallone/pr_apr19_armenia_militia.html (915 words)

	U.S. TROOPS IN AZERBAIJAN? MOSCOW SAYS NO, BUT BAKU SAYS MAYBE - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia have improved in recent years and increased since the beginning of this year.
		Some in Azerbaijan believe that the Russian security services helped their Azerbaijani counterparts secretly film this meeting, which was later used to discredit the leader of the main opposition party, Ali Kerimli.
		Azerbaijan's involvement in NATO's Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) may help the Azerbaijani government in reaching a compromise, at least for the short-term.
	jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2370148 (944 words)

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