Recently Ilham Aliev made warlike statements in Baku saying that they had got some military techniques, thus, frustrating the military balance in the region. The Armenian part keeps silence, even when Robert Simmon, the Special Representative of NATO Secretary General in the South Caucasus, announced that Azerbaijan violated the OSCE agreement on "Convention of Ordinary Offence Armaments Reduction in Europe"Â.
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North Korea Foreign Ministry said that their country is ready to quickly shut down its nuclear reactor after receiving funds that had been frozen in a banking dispute.
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In Somalia, the interim government says it has reached agreement with clan warlords to disarm their militias and join a new national army. But even as the negotiations were under way in the presidential residence, at least five people were killed and several others wounded during a clash near the residence between presidential security guards and the militia of a powerful warlord. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi.
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Several hundred Somalis have taken to the streets of the capital city, Mogadishu, to protest the presence of Ethiopian troops who are backing the interim government.
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The Somali government has postponed a plan to forcibly disarm Somali residents as security forces clashed with several hundred demonstrators in the capital, Mogadishu.
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U.N. monitors in Nepal are to begin overseeing the disarming of Maoist rebels next week, as part of a peace deal between Maoist guerrillas and the government.
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