Azerbaijan

Rasmussen: 'NATO and Japan – natural partners'

Jorge Benitez — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:31:05 -0500

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO: My visit to Asia is about partnerships. It is an opportunity to showcase these partnerships and to make them stronger. Because our partnerships are in the interest of peace.

Europe's Foreign-Policy Resilience

Jorge Benitez — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:54:52 -0600

From Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Antonio Vitorino, Project Syndicate: For starters, the coherence of Europe’s policies toward Russia improved

Azerbaijan sharply increases military spending

Jorge Benitez — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:30:21 -0600

From AP: Azerbaijan's president has announced a sharp hike in military spending and again warned neighboring Armenia to pull out of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

Lugar: US should let NATO allies tap natural gas exports

Jorge Benitez — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:20:40 -0600

From Roberta Rampton, Reuters: The U.S. Congress should give European allies access to burgeoning supplies of U.S. natural gas, Republican Senator Richard Lugar said on Wednesday, proposing a new law that he said would improve energy security in a critical region.

Shah Deniz II and the Southern Gas Corridor: The Endgame

Jason Harmala — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:16:13 -0500

On October 10 the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center held a small, off-the-record discussion with BP Azerbaijan Vice President Al Cook on Shah Deniz and progress toward realization of the Southern Gas Corridor from Baku on the Caspian Sea to Turkey and other European markets beyond it. Mr.

Deputy SecGen Vershbow: NATO must continue to adapt to meet security demands of the 21st century

Jorge Benitez — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:15:23 -0500

From atlantic-community.org: Excerpts from Atlantic Community sponsored Q&A with Deputy Secretary General of NATO Ambassador Alexander Vershbow.

If Caucasus erupts, war could spread

Jorge Benitez — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:48:43 -0500

From Timothy Heritage and Francesco Guarascio, Reuters: Sporadic firefights have intensified along the front line around Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave within Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus controlled by ethnic Armenians since a war in the early 1990s that killed about 30,000 people.

'Patriotic hackers' in Armenia and Azerbaijan escalate crisis with cyber attacks

Jorge Benitez — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:03:52 -0500

From Gohar Abrahamyan, ArmeniaNow: The August 31 extradition and further pardon of Azeri murderer Ramil Safarov serving a life sentence in Hungary for killing an Armenia officer has been met with many acts of protest, including cyber attacks.