Iranian TV Represented Karabakh as Independent Republic. Baku DiscontentJune 7, 2006 - 18:07 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Baku expressed discontent over the fact that the State Iranian Television presented Nagorno Karabakh as an independent republic on the news. As head of the press office of the Congress of Azerbaijanis of the World Ali Nicat stated, in a report covering the Bucharest talks of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents Iran TV 1 journalist said, "The Independent Nagorno Karabakh Republic proclaimed its independence 15 years ago. Now Azerbaijan raises territorial claims to the republic." "We perceive it as a threat to Azerbaijan from the direction of Iran, since Southern Azerbaijan has an information outlet into the world via the Azerbaijani republic only. With such threats Iran wishes to force Azerbaijan to close this outlet," he said, reported Day.az. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |