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Online Project Documents Cultural Destruction in Azerbaijan

Aimed at spreading awareness about cultural cleansing in the Republic of Azerbaijan, a project to document the deliberate destruction of the world’s largest medieval Armenian archaeological site has been launched online.

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Azerbaijan Continues Propaganda War Misleading International Community

It is true that in today's world the strength of arms will not conquer any land or resolve any war. Azerbaijan continues wrongly accusing Armenia and misleading international community on the issue of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

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Congress to Reduce Aid to Armenia, Keep Military Aid Parity With Azerbaijan

WASHINGTON--Negotiators representing the U.S. House and Senate appear to have agreed upon fiscal year 2008 assistance figures for Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The figure levels are substantially less than last year and have come as part of a far-reaching agreement on foreign aid and other appropriations measures that is set to be adopted soon by both houses of Congress, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.

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Armenia Could Quit Arms Treaty If Azerbaijan Continues Build-UP

Armenia could pull out of a key arms control pact if arch-rival Azerbaijan continues its military build-up in the coming years, Defense Minister Mikael Harutiunian warned on Friday.

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Azeri Foreign Ministry Says Karabakh Must be Part of Azerbaijan

YEREVAN (Armenpress)--A spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Khazar Ibrahim, told Azerbaijan-Novosti news agency that "Azerbaijan does not trade in its land; Armenian troops must be withdrawn from the occupied regions and Azeri refugees and internally displaced persons must return to their previous homes." "This should be followed by defining the status of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of an integral Azerbaijani republic,' he added.

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Diplomats Push Armenia, Azerbaijan on Settlement of Disputed Territory

WASHINGTON (Combined Sources)--Diplomats from the United States, Russia and France on Thursday urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to agree to a set of principles for a settlement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the U.S. State Department said in a statement.

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Azerbaijan says Nagorny Karabakh hostilities may resume at any time

Azerbaijan has said that armed clashes with Armenia over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh territory could resume at any moment, an Azerbaijani Defense Ministry official said on Friday.

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Azerbaijan minister says military conflict with Armenia possible

Azerbaijan's defense minister said military conflict with Armenia over the disputed Nagorno Karabakh area was likely but his Armenian counterpart denied such a possibility.

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Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan to be linked by new railroad

The railway that will link Georgia, Azerbaijan with Central Asia and Europe, bypassing Russia, was launched on Wednesday by the presidents of the former Soviet Republics and Turkey.

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NKR Defense Army doesn’t break ceasefire

The NKR Defense Army doesn’t violate the ceasefire, head of the department of propaganda and information at the NKR Defense Ministry, lieutenant colonel Senor Asratyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. “Misinformation spread by Azeris is meant to show the international community that the war in Karabakh is not over and that Armenians are aggressors,” he said.

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ICG: status quo can provoke war in Karabakh

Azerbaijan and Armenia should halt their dangerous arms race and restrain their belligerent rhetoric and instead renew efforts to find a negotiated settlement for the Nagorno Karabakh region, says a report issued by the International Crisis Group.

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Azerbaijan’s policy toward Armenian monuments is a cultural genocide

“The more improbable is the lie the greater is the possibility that people will believe it. This sad maxim occurs while reading a recurrent opus invented by the Azeri agitation industry as regards historical monuments in Nakhijevan. This style might be comprehended and explained if the authors did not go beyond the Azeri information field, where the propaganda machine can brainwash the citizens filling them with absurd ideas and ‘facts’,”

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