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(Quelle: EurasiaNet) Economics may hold the key to breaking the stalemate in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. Turkish and Azerbaijani officials reportedly are seriously mulling the possibility of Armenian participation in the long-planned Nabucco pipeline project as part of a comprehensive Karabakh peace pact.

(Quelle: Panorama.am) Russia is certain that the conflict of the NKR has no military solution, said the Minister of Foerign Affairs Sergey Lavrov in a press conference after the meeting-discussion with his Armenian counterpart Edvard Nalbandyan. “The conflict is to be solved out only though negotiations by the support of the OSCE Minsk group,” said S. Lavrov.

(Quelle: Eurasianet) The Nagorno-Karabakh peace process is passing through a rough patch. Armenia has vowed to recognize the breakaway region if Azerbaijan tries to make a break with the current negotiating format. Some local analysts, however, see powerful checks on Armenia’s ability to take such unilateral action.

(Quelle: UN News) The General Assembly today adopted a resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in which it called for the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of Armenian forces “from all the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan.”

(Quelle: Reliefweb) Azerbaijan's president said on Tuesday his country was ready to take back breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh by force if need be and was buying military equipment and arms in preparation. President Ilham Aliyev linked his comments to the newly-declared independence in Kosovo which he said had emboldened ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh.

(Quelle: BBC) Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have clashed over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Two Azeris were killed and one Armenian was injured in the ceasefire breach, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said. Azeri authorities told the BBC Armenia had provoked the clashes to divert attention from its domestic problems.

(Quelle: ISN Security Watch) Azerbaijan is up for a fight over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, but Armenia remains unbowed. EU officials touring the South Caucasus this week were confronted by heated words from President Ilham Aliyev, who told them Azerbaijan is ready to 'wage war' with neighboring Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) The international mediators attached new elements to the last proposals on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, which were presented to Azerbaijan and Armenia in Madrid. The details of the elements are not made publicly available due to the confidentiality of the talks.

(Quelle: IWPR) As the year 2007 slips away, hope is fading for a framework agreement on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, and there are fears that the peace process may collapse altogether next year. The deadlock coincides with the suspension of ceasefire monitoring along the long line of trenches that divides Armenian and Azerbaijani forces around Karabakh, and increased warnings that the dispute – in which fighting was halted in 1994 – might once again lead to open conflict. With no agreement in sight and presidential elections due in both Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2008, time is running out, leaving the bleak prospect that the peace process will die next year.

(Quelle: Eurasianet) In Madrid prior to an OSCE ministerial council meeting on November 29, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were presented with a set of basic principles for a Karabakh peace settlement. “The parties to the conflict were strongly urged to bring to a close the current stage of negotiations by endorsing the proposed basic principles, and to quickly commence work on a comprehensive peace agreement,” the OSCE said in a statement. The US State Department issued a similar statement.