Archivo etiqueta «Azerbaiyán»
By Stephen Blank, a professor for the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. The views expressed here do not represent those of the U.S. Army, Defense Department or the U.S. government (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 07/01/12):
Iran’s capture of an American drone compels us to revisit some difficult, unwelcome but fundamental security issues. If Iran downed a sophisticated U.S. drone, as it claims, that would represent a monumental Iranian intelligence coup in learning how to override the drone’s command-and-control system and then guide it safely down to earth. That conclusion, if true, would … Seguir leyendo
By Ariel Cohen, senior research fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies and international energy policy at the Heritage Foundation (heritage.org) and Robert Nicholson, a member of the Young Leaders program at Heritage (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 29/07/11):
America has sacrificed a lot fighting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan – but we are not alone. The United States and our NATO allies are getting help from places many Americans can’t find on the map.
Late on July 5, an Azerbaijani tanker plane crashed in Afghanistan en route to U.S.-NATO Bagram Air Base with a load of fuel. The United … Seguir leyendo
By Sabine Freizer, Europe program director of the International Crisis Group (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24/06/11):
The United States, the European Union and Russia don’t seem to agree on much these days. But in the volatile South Caucasus, they concur that Armenia and Azerbaijan need to sign an agreement on Friday if they are serious about finding a peaceful solution to the decades-old Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia has invited the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to the city of Kazan on Friday and expects they will finally put their signatures on a “basic principles” text they have … Seguir leyendo
By Xandra Kayden, a senior fellow at the School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 27/04/11):
There is something weird and rather disturbing about Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) – a U.S.-funded media outlet that is famous for broadcasting information during the Cold War to support our friends and undermine our enemies – attacking an ally over our mutual enemy, radical jihadism.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has claimed repeatedly that Azerbaijan is not at risk from the threat of spreading Iranian-backed radicalism and therefore, accuses it of human rights violations for considering … Seguir leyendo
By Peter Van Praagh, a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (THE WASHINGTON POST, 27/12/10):
Ten years ago this month, a young American civilian working for democracy in Azerbaijan was brutally murdered in the former Soviet republic’s capital. The stabbing of John Alvis raised little public attention. A decade later, his death remains a crime deemed unsolved by the FBI.
John Alvis, a 36-year-old from Texas, was the representative of the International Republican Institute in Baku. He worked closely with me, in my capacity as representative of the National Democratic Institute, to … Seguir leyendo
By Anna Matveeva, a visiting fellow with the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics (THE GUARDIAN, 17/05/10):
Last week, 12 May, marked 16 years since Russia mediated a ceasefire agreement that ended the Armenian-Azerbaijani war over Nagorno-Karabakh and started a long period of “no war, no peace” stagnation. Presently, there is a sense that things might be changing.
The territory of Karabakh is essentially a backwater for both countries. It had certain significance for Soviet military planners because of its proximity to Turkey, but otherwise has no prize assets. It is agricultural land, now sparsely … Seguir leyendo
By Ali Karimli, chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan and co-founder of Azadlig (Freedom) Political Bloc of Opposition Parties (THE WASHINGTON POST, 02/04/10):
Many Americans may know my country, Azerbaijan, for its oil wealth or for its conflict with Armenia over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh. A March 5 article in The Post portrayed a nation whose ruling family appears to own $75 million worth of luxury villas in Dubai. Few of us in Azerbaijan were surprised by a report that President Ilham Aliyev’s family apparently invests assets abroad. What else should be expected from a leader … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 28/11/07):
When Ganimat Zahidov, editor of the independent Azadlyq newspaper, arrived for work one day this month in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, he was accosted on the pavement by a young woman he had never seen before who started cursing and shouting at him. Moments later “an athletically built young man popped out of nowhere and began beating me”, he said. “I defended myself as best I could.”
Within hours, Zahidov had been arrested by police, charged with “hooliganism” and sentenced to two months’ pre-trial detention. If found guilty, he faces five years in … Seguir leyendo
Por Alberto Priego Moreno, investigador de la UNISCI, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 18/07/07):
Tema: El conflicto de Nagorno-Karabaj ha limitado la estabilidad del Cáucaso desde hace siglos. La implicación de actores internacionales (Irán, Rusia, Turquía, EEUU o Francia) ha complicado más aún la resolución del mismo.
Resumen: Nagorno-Karabaj es una “pequeña” montaña en disputa entre Azerbaiyán y Armenia. A finales de los años 80 el conflicto se convirtió en una guerra abierta que segó la vida de más de 15.000 personas. En 1994 se estableció un alto el fuego, tutelado por la OSCE, que debe convertirse … Seguir leyendo
By Jackson Diehl (THE WASHINGTON POST, 11/12/06):
Some people suppose that President Bush’s freedom agenda was buried last Wednesday by the report of the Iraq Study Group. In fact, history will show that the administration largely smothered its own baby, even before Iraq’s descent into civil war propelled the resurrection of James Baker and other “realist” friends of Middle Eastern dictators.
Evidence of that conclusion could be found in Washington on the same day Baker delivered his report, as administration officials, members of Congress and business executives gathered for a glittering dinner in honor of Mehriban Aliyeva, the visiting first … Seguir leyendo
By Jackson Diehl (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/04/06):
President Bush’s retreat from the ambitious goals of his second term will proceed one small but fateful step further this Friday. That’s when, after more than two years of stalling, the president will deliver a warm White House welcome to Ilham Aliyev, the autocratic and corrupt but friendly ruler of one of the world’s emerging energy powers, Azerbaijan.
Here’s why this is a tipping point: At the heart of Bush’s democracy doctrine was the principle that the United States would abandon its Cold War-era practice of propping up dictators — especially in the … Seguir leyendo