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  Azerbaijan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan) is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with a coast on the Caspian Sea.
The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (an exclave of Azerbaijan) borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest.
The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the Oguz subdivision of the Turkic language family, and is spoken by around 95% of the republic’s population, as well as about a third of the population of Iran.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azerbaijan   (1677 words)

  
 Azerbaijan (10/04)
Azerbaijan received de facto recognition by the Allies as an independent nation in January 1920, an independence terminated by the arrival of the Red Army in April.
Azerbaijan's embassy in the United States is at 2741 34th Street NW, Washington, DC 20008; tel (202) 337-3500; fax (202) 337-5911; Consular tel (202) 337-5912; Consular fax (202) 337-5913; www.azembassy.com.
Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership, the World Health Organization, CFE Treaty member state, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Council of Europe, the Community of Democracies, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2909.htm   (3081 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Azerbaijan
National Anthem of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Himni in Azeri) is the national anthem of Azerbaijan, and the original title of this anthem is March of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan marşı).
Azerbaijan or Azerbeijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan, Azərbeycan) is a country in the Caucaus region, adjacent to the Caspian Sea.
Main article: Economy of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan is an economy in transition in which the state continues to play a dominant role.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Azerbaijan   (7945 words)

  
 LLRX -- A Guide to the Republic of Azerbaijan Law Research
The Constitution was adopted on November 12, 1995 by the Referendum of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
With the aim of implementing executive power, the President of the Azerbaijan Republic is authorized to form the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic which is the supreme body of the executive power of the President.
The Cabinet of Ministers http://www.president.az/office/cabmin.htm is subordinate to the president, and its aim is the implementation of the President's policies and duties.
www.llrx.com /features/azerbaijan.htm   (2822 words)

  
 Azerbaijan Internet Links
It was just Azerbaijan President that came to the place of accident, gave concrete tasks to settle the problem, and calmed injured men.
Azerbaijan President lives with the problems of refugees and deported persons, keeps in touch to them regularly, takes care of them and consoles them with his hot attitude, kind acts.
President's preferring to liberal values in his activity can be considered successful for Azeri society, while inclinations to radicalism are becoming stronger in the modern world.
resources.net.az /ii.htm   (3052 words)

  
 [29 Jul 1997]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN
The President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alirza Ogly Aliyev, at a press conference at Headquarters yesterday afternoon, said his country was involved in the process of building a democratic society, furthering its relations with the United States and developing its economy on market principles.
Azerbaijan achieved independence with the collapse of the former Soviet Union and was currently in the process of building a democratic, law-governed State, President Aliyev said.
Azerbaijan had accepted those principles, which were supported by 53 of the 54 OSCE nations.
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1997/19970729.azer729.html   (1279 words)

  
 Azerbaijan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan) is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with an eastern coast on the Caspian Sea.
Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory, and must support some 800,000 refugees and internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict.
The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the Oguz subdivision of the Turkic language family, and is spoken by around 95% of the republic’s population, as well as about a quarter of the population of Iran.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Azerbaijan.htm   (1177 words)

  
 PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on November 11 gave an interview to the Russian NTV at the President Palace.
President of the Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev on November 9 gave an interview to the Bulgarian national television.
President of the Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev on November 8 at the President Palace received head of the mission of observation of the Islamic Republic of Iran the parliament elections in Azerbaijan, Ahad Gazai.
www.president.az /index_e.html   (471 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: President of Azerbaijan
The President of the Philippines meets with the President of the United States.
Under the doctrine of the separation of powers, the executive is the branch of a government charged with implementing, or executing, the law.
The Azerbaijan Popular Front (Azərbaycan Xalq Cəbhəsi Partiyası) (boy thats some language theyve got) is the main opposition political party in Azerbaijan, founded in 1992 by Abulfez Elchibey.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/President-of-Azerbaijan   (1034 words)

  
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Meanwhile, it was the breach in the balance that laid the ground for the subsequent outbreak of the conflict.
In 1989, Azerbaijan suggested an exchange of population, which implied repatriation of the Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh to the freed villages in Armenia and the settlement of Azeri refugees in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied Azerbaijani territories, the renunciation of territorial claims, the recognition of Azerbaijan¹s territorial integrity, the return of all the refugees to their homes and respect of the national minorities¹ and human rights in both countries would re-establish traditional balance and lead to a stable peace in the region.
www.angelfire.com /ct/fariz/Karabakh.html   (2157 words)

  
 ABC News: Azerbaijan's President Pledges More Reform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
BAKU, Azerbaijan Nov 6, 2005 — Azerbaijan's president pledged that Sunday's parliamentary elections would be followed by further democratic reform of the oil-rich former Soviet republic, but his political opponents alleged there already had been violations in the voting.
The parliamentary election is an uneven contest in a country where President Ilham Aliev's word is law and where a weak opposition has been shrunk by arrests and many campaign rallies broken up with police beatings.
The election pits Aliev's New Azerbaijan Party against three major opposition parties that have come together in the Azadliq (Freedom) bloc and adopted the orange color of the peaceful Ukrainian revolution a year ago.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1285900   (403 words)

  
 Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea at the southeast extremity of the Caucasus.
The territory of Soviet Azerbaijan was acquired by Russia from Persia through the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813 and the Treaty of Turkamanchai in 1828.
Azerbaijan, country, Asia: History - History The Republic of Azerbaijan comprises the Transcaucasian or northern part of the historic...
www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0107305.html   (713 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | April 30, 2004: Headlines: COS - Azerbaijan: Peace Corps Directors - Vasquez: Azer Tag, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev received on 30 April the delegation led by director of the US Peace Corps Gaddy Vasquez.
President Ilham Aliyev gave high assessment to the program being realized jointly with the US Peace Corps in the humanitarian, education and other fields in the Country.
President Ilham Aliyev reminded that bilateral relations between the two countries are high level and the United States greatly promotes development of economy, in particular, the energy and communication projects of Azerbaijan.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2021159.html   (709 words)

  
 REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS IN AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaijan was the first republic of former USSR that faced the problem of refugees started in 1988.
In Azerbaijan the average death rate is the 25 deaths for 1,000 new-born.
Thus by the decree #383 of the President of Azerbaijan of April 26, 1993 the Republican Commission for International Humanitarian and Technical Assistance was established.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/usazerb/refugees.htm   (1524 words)

  
 CNN.com - Former president of Azerbaijan dies in U.S. - Dec. 12, 2003
Former Azerbaijani President Geidar Aliyev, a KGB general and Communist Party chief, brought stability to a nation plagued by insurgencies and bled by a punishing war over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
His son, Ilham Aliyev, assumed the presidency in the October 15 presidential elections in what many claimed was the first dynastic handover of power in a former Soviet country.
But he remained widely popular in Azerbaijan, where he cultivated the image of a wise grandfather who was not to be crossed, and decorated the streets with his portraits and slogans.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/12/12/obit.aliev.ap/index.html   (1113 words)

  
 Aliyev - Quotes related to Azerbaijan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Azerbaijan is a young nation and democracy is a new concept.
Azerbaijan is appealing to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague to recognize the atrocities carried out in Khojali as war crimes against humanity.
As is well known, toward the end of the 20th century a new expression, "the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," entered the lexicon of world politics as a result of aggression by Armenian separatists.
www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/topics/Quotes/quote_aliyev.heydar.html   (1229 words)

  
 Azerbaijan
Oil-rich Azerbaijan appeared to be slipping into a political crisis after pro-democracy activists keen on engineering a Ukraine-style orange revolution accused the government of rig...
Azerbaijan is due to hold parliamentary elections, seen as test of democracy in the oil-rich former Soviet republic.
Azerbaijan, scene of a potentially violent election showdown this weekend, is a country on the make.
www.azerbaijan.com   (542 words)

  
 Azerbaijan - Political Instability   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The president of Azerbaijan's Supreme Soviet, Yakub Mamedov, became acting president.
Mutalibov loyalists in the Supreme Soviet reinstated him as president, but two days later he was forced to flee the country when APF-led crowds stormed the government buildings in Baku.
Elchibey served as president only one year, however, before being forced to flee Baku in mid-June 1993 in the face of an insurrection led by a disgruntled military officer.
www.countrystudies.us /azerbaijan/15.htm   (198 words)

  
 Azerbaijan -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The territory of the present Azerbaijan was acquired by Russia from Persia through the treaties of Gulistan (1813) and Turkamanchai (1828).
Azerbaijan declared itself independent of the USSR in Aug., 1991, and became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The president withdrew from the Oct., 2003, election in favor of his son, who was elected by a landslide; the balloting was criticized by independent observers as neither free nor fair.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Azerbaij_History.asp   (877 words)

  
 Azerbaijan Country Analysis Brief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the meantime, Azerbaijan is struggling to overcome the economic collapse that followed independence from the former Soviet Union, as the country's GDP contracted by almost 60 percent from 1990 to 1995.
Azerbaijan's hope for future economic growth rests in large part with successful development of its vast oil and natural gas resources in the Caspian Sea region and through effective management of the resulting revenue stream.
Azerbaijan will have drastically higher oil revenues than ever before, and although the country has effectively managed a $1 billion oil fund, bankers and investors question whether Azerbaijan can manage an oil fund that could eventually be worth $30 billion.
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/azerbjan.html   (4812 words)

  
 Azerbaijan- President Ilham ALIYEV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh enclave (largely Armenian populated).
Corruption is ubiquitous and the promise of widespread wealth from Azerbaijan's undeveloped petroleum resources remains largely unfulfilled.
www.whoyoushouldknow.com /archive/asia/azerbaijan/index.php   (195 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Russia Has Come to Terms with Azerbaijan. How about Turkey?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The greatest significance is rightfully given to the agreement on the status of Russia's radar installation in Gabala, Azerbaijan, and the never before expressed preparedness of Russia to consider her participation in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project.
Azerbaijan relies on Russia's help in resolving the Nagorno- Karabakh issue, said Azerbaijan's President Geidar Aliev at the Saturday negotiations in the Kremlin with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov More details...
The mother accuses the president, head of the presidential administration Vladimir Litvin, and Ex-minister for internal affairs Yury Kravchenko of the assassination of her son.
english.pravda.ru /cis/2002/02/02/26184.html   (2703 words)

  
 President of Azerbaijan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
President of Azerbaijan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The current President of Azerbaijan is (additional info and facts about Ilham Aliyev) Ilham Aliyev.
He succeeded his father, (additional info and facts about Heydar Aliyev) Heydar Aliyev who became president in 1993 after the overthrow of (additional info and facts about Abulfaz Elchibey) Abulfaz Elchibey.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/president_of_azerbaijan.htm   (77 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - President of Azerbaijan receives president of LUKoil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Thanking the President for the kind words, Mr Alekperov expressed him his deep sympathy upon the first anniversary of the demise of national leader of Azerbaijan Heidar Aliyev.
He further informed President Ilham Aliyev on LUKoil's activities in Azerbaijan and future plans, and described the work done by the company in the country over the past period as quite satisfactory.
Expressing his gratitude for the condolences and kind words, President Ilham Aliyev noted that the oil strategy founded by national leader Heidar Aliyev, which continues to be successfully implemented in the country, would serve the welfare of the people of Azerbaijan.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnc50373.htm   (228 words)

  
 Caspian Environment Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In addition to this M-me Beguin has expressed her hope that the President of Azerbaijan will support the establishment of a national office of REC Caucasus in Baku.
Aliyev has noted that protection of the environment is question number one for all mankind today and although the President of Azerbaijan is against cooperation with Armenia in all other areas before establishment of peace, he is ready for cooperation in this sphere.
However it is necessary to coordinate the work of the centre in Tbilisi, the centre in Azerbaijan, and the centres in other places.
www.caspianenvironment.org /scripts/print.pl?word=news_pres.htm   (327 words)

  
 CNN.com - Former president of Azerbaijan dies in U.S. - Dec. 12, 2003
CNN.com - Former president of Azerbaijan dies in U.S. - Dec. 12, 2003
Former president of Azerbaijan dies in U.S. Former Azerbaijani President Geidar Aliyev
Aliyev was born in the region of Nakhichevan on May 10, 1923, one of eight children.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/12/12/obit.aliev.ap   (1113 words)

  
 Iran/Azerbaijan: Iranian President Visits Azerbaijan, Calls For Closer Ties - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
"The border between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan is a border of peace, friendship, and brotherhood," Khatami said.
"The significance of the visit is [the] development of good neighborly relationships with Azerbaijan, bearing in mind that we have certain difficulties with that state in connection with the Caspian Sea," he said.
He is expected to visit Ganca, Azerbaijan's second-largest city, tomorrow before returning to Iran.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/08/61a736b6-58ef-4bed-bd9a-a69a695ab03e.html   (547 words)

  
 Abulfaz Elchibey, former President of Azerbaijan.
After living in seclusion in the Nakhichevan community of Keleki for four years, former President of Azerbaijan and leader of the Democratic Congress and People´s Front Abulfaz Elchibey landed in the epicenter of national politics as soon as he returned to Baku.
Almost 2,000 wells in Azerbaijan were not working at that time because of technical obsolescence and the shortage of funds.
The oil belongs to the people of Azerbaijan, but the oil production facilities are being run by people who treat Azerbaijan with hostility, who will not repeal discriminatory laws, who refuse to help Azerbaijan´s people, and who want to make billions in profits here for themselves.
www.ulfsbo.nu /ussr/elchibey.html   (2172 words)

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