Karabakh has more rights to independence than Kosovo. Azerbaijan, Armenia and the international community should be fair and exercise justice for all nations respecting the right of self determination.

Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, has announced that it plans to bid for the Olympics. Initial studies suggest that the cost of hosting the 2016 Summer Olympic Games may be $20 billion. Chingiz Huseynzade, chairman of Azerbaijan's National Olympic Committee, told in a July 2007 press conference that a group of economists is working on this issue.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nagorno Karabakh Republic comments on the resolution that Azerbaijan presented to UN and got adapted by the UN General Assembly.

BAKU (Combined Sources)-Azeri and Armenian forces exchanged gunfire near the Aghdam region of Nagorno-Karabakh over the weekend. According to officials in Baku, two civilians and at least two soldiers were killed in the fighting.

Despite the difference between the Kosovo and Nagorno Karabakh conflicts, independence of Kosovo can set a precedent for conflicts like in Nagrono Karabakh, Dov Lynch OSCE Secretariat Senior Adviser, said when addressing Rose-Roth NATO seminar in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Now that Kosovo gained its independence Nagorno-Karabakh's international recognition should come next. If freedom is permitted for one nation, it's permitted for all nations.

Officials in Armenia and Azerbaijan have confirmed an outbreak of military clashes in two regions of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Foreign Minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian informed today on serious violation of truce by Azerbaijan, as a result of which there are killed and wounded.

YEREVAN (Armenpress)--Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian spoke Monday at an international conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Armenian Massacres in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgayit.

More than 50 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives called upon Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Friday to challenge Azerbaijan's threats of renewed war against Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, and to take concrete action to hold leaders in Baku accountable for actions that directly undermine the Administration's policy of fostering peace and stability in the South Caucasus region, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)--International mediators claimed on Thursday to have made further progress towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict but indicated that no Armenian-Azeri peace accords will be signed before Armenia's forthcoming presidential election, as the Azeri president threatened war again.

Armenia and Azerbaijan are in long dispute over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh. However, international community, Armenians and mediators' helping Azerbaijan to host 2016 Olympic Games could help to resolve the conflict quicker, through peaceful means. Azerbaijan is better off with Olympic Games, the money, attention and tourism that it brings than with Nagorno Karabakh, which is going to be like an investment sink.