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 Artificial islands expected to be built near the costs of Baku in the Caspian Sea, the government sources told APA-ECONOMICS. In the first phase, several islands will be created in 4-5 km off Baku, which will be connected with Baku via direct highway and maritime transport. The islands will be crated for the developing tourism sector. |
 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will raise the issue of bloody events in Xinjiang-Uighur autonomous region of China in the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy. On his departure for the G8 summit, Erdogan told journalists that he will raise the issue of mass killing of Uighurs to the G8 leaders, including the US, APA reports quoting Haberturk. “Our foreign ministry invited the Chinese ambassador and gave a notice to him. |
 Official Moscow is preparing the next meeting of the presidents of Russian Federation, Azerbaijan and Armenia. APA reports quoting Russian press that Aide to the Russian President Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko informed about it at the G8 summit in the central Italian city of L’Aquila. |
 “The upcoming meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents will show whether there will be any progress or not in the negotiations”, said Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, APA reports. He noted that they were ready for discussion of the issue regarding Nagorno Karabakh’s status: “Nagorno Karabakh’s status must be determined only within the framework of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. |
 Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will attend the meeting in the 27+1 format in Brussels on July 15. APA reports that the Minister informed about it. According to him, representatives of Defense Ministry, State Border Service and other services will also participate at the event. |
 “Azerbaijani lands are under occupation for long years. The ceasefire was declared 15 years ago, but the issue didn’t find its solution yet. Armenia’s ethnic cleansing policy and military aggression against Azerbaijan resulted with the occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijani lands and turned one million people into the refugees and internally displaced persons”, said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in his press statement after the meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, APA reports. |
 “The co-chairs don’t conceal their position. We consider that Nagorno Karabakh should participate in the process of solution to the conflict. We hope that the text of peace agreement will be drawn after the basic principles coordination and Nagorno Karabakh representatives will join the process in the format accepted by the sides”, said Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuriy Merzlyakov at a press conference in Yerevan, APA reports quoting News Armenia. |
 OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut will be on a visit to Azerbaijan on July 16-17, Azerbaijani ambassador to Austria Fuad Ismayilov told APA. The main goal of the visit is the learning of current state of cooperation between the OSCE and Azerbaijan and discussions over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. |
 G8 leaders issued a join declaration on Iran in the first day of their summit in the central Italian city of L’Aquila on July 8, APA reports quoting AFP. They expressed serious concern over the political crisis in Iran after the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iran’s nuclear program as well. |
 Meeting of Azerbaijani-Pakistani commission will be held in Baku in September. Bilateral relations in all spheres will be discussed, as well as new decisions will be made during this meeting, Azerbaijani ambassador to Pakistan Eynulla Madatli said. |
 Netherlands Cabinet of Ministers decided to set up the embassy in Baku, press-secretary of the foreign ministry Aad Meijer told Trend News over phone from the Hague. Netherlands foreign minister Maxime Verhagen addressed with setting up of the embassy. The embassy will operate for Dutch enterprises and deal with cooperation in power engineering. |
 Although the policy in the Caucasus and the Middle East is a priority for Turkey, but its main goal in foreign policy is membership to the European Union, said Turkish analyst. "The main policy direction of Turkey is the Caucasus and the Middle East, but its main goal in foreign policy is membership to the EU," a professor at the University of Ishik, Bulent Aras, told Trend News by telephone from Ankara. |
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