Presidential election kicked off in Azerbaijan

Presidential election kicked off in Azerbaijan

October 15, 2008 - 16:17 AMT  08:26 GMT
Some 1,233 international observers from 60 countries are observing the election.
Rice: Karabakh issue to be discussed during talks with RA Prime Minister

Rice: Karabakh issue to be discussed during talks with RA Prime Minister

October 15, 2008 - 16:14 AMT  08:26 GMT
"We look forward to continuing to work on issues of common interest," the U.S. Secretary of State said.

Turkey may in fact become a regional power through the UNSC

October 14, 2008 - 20:28 AMT  08:26 GMT
Ankara has rather definitely realized that the way to a regional power passes not only through cooperation with regional states and a convenient transit for exporting hydrocarbon, but also through membership in the UNSC. Somehow it so happened that the «five-day war» of Mikhail Saakashvili proved to be most advantageous for Turkey, and, as a result, it can now run for a seat in the UN. The United Nations has been making hardly any decision recently, and even if it made, its decisions were all based on strange interpretations of basic principles of the international law.
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