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 The Armenian lobby is responsible for the U.S. Congress deciding to provide financial aid to Nagorno-Karabakh in 2010, European expert on the South Caucasus Amanda Akcakoca said. "However, at the same time this aid has been given for over 15 years and is clearly a result of the strong Armenian lobby in the U.S.," European Politics Center expert Amanda Akcakoca told Trend News via e-mail. |
 Despite their differences, Russia and NATO need to work closer together, said the defence alliance's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Wednesday on his first visit to Moscow as head of NATO, reported the Interfax news agency. NATO would be interested in an expanded partnership with Russia, Rasmussen said, adding that both face the same risks, DPA reported. |
 The necessary preventive measures have been taken to ensure fire safety during the municipal elections in constituencies and districts, Azerbaijani Emergency Minister Kamaladdin Heydarov said during his speech at an event dedicated to Professional Workers Day. |
 Western governments want to emphasize Azerbaijan's importance, Politics Professor at the Public and International Affairs Department at George Mason University Mark Katz said. "Azerbaijan has reacted negatively to the prospects of Turkish-Armenian rapprochement without resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh issue and has intimated that it will move closer to Russia if this occurs," Katz wrote Trend News in an e-mail. "Western leaders do not want this either." |
 In January-October, Azerbaijan imported about 53,500 cars, which is less by 25.9 percent than the same period of 2008, the State Statistics Committee said. According to the statistics committee, in January-October Azerbaijan imported cars amounted to about $ 382 million, which is less by 29.2 percent compared to 2008. |
 The average gas supply of Bakgaz (distribution and sale of gas to Baku), under the Azerigas Production Unity (PU), to the Baku gas supply system hits 2.1 milliard cubic in January to November, the company said. Earlier, Azerigas JSC was attached to the structure of SOCAR (Sate Oil Company of the Azerbaijan) as PU. |
 The U.S. has to cooperate with Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan to ensure safe gas supplies for the Nabucco gas pipeline project, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Hamilton said. "Another goal is the assistance of Turkey and Azerbaijan in signing relevant contracts on gas transit," Hamilton said at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the "Lisbon Treaty: Consequences for Future Relations between the EU and the U.S." |
 Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will pay an official visit to Turkey Dec. 24-25, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told Trend News. A wide range of issues covering bilateral and multilateral relations, as well as the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, will be discussed during the visit," Polukhov said. |
 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said Wednesday that its basket oil price rose 0.15 dollars the previous day, stopping the downward movement that set in early December, DPA reported. OPEC-produced crude stood at 70.79 dollars per barrel (159 litres) on Tuesday. |
 The department head of Azerbaijani Presidential Administration regrets that some media outlets describe as anti-American campaign the protests of Azerbaijani people, Parliament, Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh against the decision of the U.S. to provide financial assistance to the separatists of Nagorno-Karabakh. |
 A dialog between Georgia and EU on human rights protection will be held in Brussels today. According to Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze, the dialog will be held in enlarged format. |
 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that it was not possible to talk about a permanent stability in Europe before stability in Bosnia-Herzegovina was restored, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking at a joint news conference with Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nikola Spiric, Erdogan described political relations between the two countries as "excellent". |
 Azerbaijan accepts provisions of the memorandum of CIS cooperation in telemedicine only in terms of compliance with all the interests of the country, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies Information Society Development Head Rufat Gulmammadov told media. |
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