AZERBAIJAN ASPIRES TO BECOME NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY ASSOCIATE MEMBERJanuary 9, 2002 - 22:29 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly Rafael Esterello will arrive in Baku January 16. His meetings with President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, Speaker of Milli Mejlis Murtuz Aleskerov, Defense and Foreign Ministers are planned. In the course of the visit the question of admission of Azerbaijan to North-Atlantic Alliance Parliamentary Assembly as associate member is planned to be discussed. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |