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 In order to increase the responsibility for administrative violations of the regulations of governance in the sphere of State border guarding, the President of Azerbaijan signed an order making effective the Law on Amendments and Additions to the Code of Administrative Violations starting from 2 October. |
 Russia only now began to really use its opportunities to regulate the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, taking more neutral position than earlier. “The possibilities of Russia are limited, but even Moscow did not use generally or used badly these limited possibilities,” said Russian political scientist Victor Pribylovskiy. The meeting of the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement will take place in Moscow on 2 November, the press service of the Kremlin reported. |
 Shekikhanovs’ House, which is the unique and historical monument of Azerbaijani architecture of 18th century, was returned to the balance of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism at the court’s verdict. The House is located in 360km of Baku. Shekikhanovs’ House was sold twice illegally within various years and is in an awful state at present, Aydin Mammadov, manager of the Shaki City culture department, told TrendNews. |
 Opposition in the country is not a political force, a member of the Azerbaijani Musavat Party Majlis (Assembly) said. “Regardless of unification form of political movements considering themselves as opposition, their force is equal to zero,” Hikmet Hajizade, a political scientist and member of the opposition Musavat Party Majlis, told Trend News on 29 October. Although negotiations have begun to unify opposition in larger coalition after the elections, establishment of the similar unification was a failure by force of mutual accusations. |
 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not frozen any more, it has been “defrosted”, Ahmad Davudoglu, senior adviser to the Turkish Prime Minister for foreign policy said, Timeturk news agency reported. Davudoglu, who addressed one of the conferences held in US, said at the moment courage and creative approach are needed to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. |
 Exclusive interview of Trend News with the Council of Europe (CE) Director General for Political Affairs Jean-Louis Laurens: Question: What is your appraisal of the current level of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe?Answer: The cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe is developing at a high level and is based on mutual trust. Implementation of the election action plan within the CE-Azerbaijan cooperation is a bright example in this respect. This plan was an important element enabling to hold elections in the most democratic conditions. |
 “After putting Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipelines, which were realized with the support of the USA, Azerbaijan does not experience problems with oil and gas export,” SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev said at the meeting with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce John J. Sullivan on 29 October. “Today Azerbaijan is one of the players ensuring energy security of Europe, the USA will support all projects being realized in this regard,” said Sullivan. |
 Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia will hold a meeting on the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Moscow on 2 November with the participation of Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, the Kremlin said on 29 October. "In accordance with the agreement achieved among the sides, a meeting between the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sarkisyan, with the participation of Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, on the solution of the [Armenian–Azerbaijani] Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be held in Moscow on 2 November 2008, Interfax reports. |
 Baku Music Academy expressed its opinion on the release of the disc of Azerbaijani songs as Armenian songs in New York. Head of legal department of Copyright Agency Khudayat Hasanli told APA it was confirmed that the disc produced by “Traditional Grossroad” company contained over ten Azeri folk and composers’ songs, and Azerbaijani instruments were used while performing them. |
 Ministry of Youth and Sports in Azerbaijan, Council of Europe, ISESCO, the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation and the European Youth Forum will hold international conference under the slogan “Away from religious discrimination” on the theme “Various forms of Islamophobia and xenophobia: it influence on youth and the activity of the youth in preventing it” in Baku on November 4-8. |
 Azerbaijan is in the honorary list of countries among UN member-countries fulfiling financial obligations before the organization. Deputy General Secretary on management issues Angela Kane informed that 140 countries have paid member fee to standing budget and 52 countries have 756 mln. USD debt, APA reports referring to UN official site. |
 The first World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia will be held from 30 October to 1 November in Istanbul, Turkey - a place which symbolizes the merging of continents and civilizations and remains the epitome of economic optimism. Azerbaijan Turkey Business Association (ATIB) said this is the first regional meeting of the World Economic Forum since the beginning of the global financial crisis, which is now impacting real economies around the globe. |
 International Crisis Group’s briefing on military reforms in Azerbaijan. Crisis Group Caucasus Project Directorate told APA that the International Crisis Group had examined the difficulties Azerbaijan faces in upgrading its military. Oil wealth has been poured into a defense budget that has increased more than ten-fold in five years, raising concerns official Baku might eventually choose war with Armenia to recover Nagorno-Karabakh. |
 Armenia is planning to allocate $100 000 loan to the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh regime in 2009. Armenian minister of finance Tigran Davatyan told Armenian journalists that 33.1 billion dram of 34.5 billion -dram budget loans would be sent to Nagorno-Karabakh, APA reports. |
 Azerbaijan plans to orbit its national communications satellite in late 2010 or early 2011, said Iltimas Mamedov, Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technology. He added that negotiations on the orbital location of the satellite are under way. “Besides, we are negotiating with other countries on the temporary lease of their free orbital locations,” he added. According to him, launching a satellite is an expensive project. |
 The Center for the Devastating Impact on the Environment and Natural Resources in the Occupied Territories has released some facts about environmental and natural damages caused by Armenians in Zengilan area. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources said the area was subjected to environmental terror. According to confirmed facts, Armenia regularly discharges 2 100 cubic meters of contaminated water per day to the Araz River through its left arm – the Okhchuchay River. |
 Geological Institute of Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences published illustrated encyclopedia on Azerbaijani minerals, Press Service of the Institute told APA. The authors of the book are Vice-President of ANAS, Director of Geological Institute Akif Alizadeh, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy Mammad Chiragov, Candidate of sciences on geology and mineralogy Hussein Valiyev and the book provides detailed information about metals, non metals, arsenide, sulfide, tioctic acid, oxide, hydroxide in Azerbaijani, Russian and English. |
 The real effective exchange rate (REER) of the manat (national currency) climbed 15.1% during January-September, an eight-year high since 2000, said the National Bank of Azerbaijan. The REER is the weighted average of the country’s currency relative to currencies of major trading partners, and it is calculated by taking into account the country’s share in a given nation’s foreign trade. |
 The rapid appreciation of the US dollar against major world currencies has no economic basis and is temporary, said Ria Novosti quoting Kenneth Rogoff, the Harvard Professor and former IMF Chief Economist, as saying. "Dollar rallying on the deteriorating U.S. economy is an incredible phenomenon. It can be explained only by the fact that investors are more scared of what is happening in Europe than happenings in the U.S.", he added. |
 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received US delegation led by the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce John Sullivan on October 29. The head of state emphasized the successful development of Azerbaijan-US bilateral relation in the different fields, press service of the President told APA. President Aliyev noted that the visit of US delegation to Azerbaijan created good opportunity to discuss the issues of economic cooperation as a part of wide relationship between the two countries. |
 Interview of Trend News with the founder of the republic youth movement ‘Irali’ and graduator of the Program for Leadership Development of the Harvard University, Jeyhun Osmanli. Question: What do you think of the recent past and current development way of the Independent Azerbaijani Government? Answer: Probably, each of us, visiting one of the developed countries, for example Norway, gets into a deep thought. The thought about whether his country would develop in this way or would the consciousness of people in ongoing process in the public reach the same level. We think how we can make our country, community and level of our individuals to meet high world standards. |
 The President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, will arrive in Baku to attend the energy summit which will take place on 14 November, Georgia’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nokolaz Nadbiladze told Trend News. |
 Interview of Trend News with Rashad Rzaguliyev, President of the Social Research Fund of Azerbaijan: Question: Over the past we are witnessing acceleration of intermediary activity of a range of leading countries in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ongoing between Armenia and Azerbaijan. What is your explanation for such pattern of developments? Answer: That seems to be directly linked to cessation of some trust agreement among the leading geopolitical centres in the region as a result of the Georgia-South Ossetia and consequently, the Russia-Georgia conflict. |
 The Press Council of Azerbaijan appealed the President of Azerbaijan with a request to pardon jailed journalists. “The jailed journalists served part of their sentence. They have children, family, old parents, who suffer it. Taking into consideration this situation, the Council asks the President to help free them,” Council’s appeal says. |
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