From: farid@mem.odu.edu (F. H. Miandoab)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: -->>> News - Azerbaijan <<<--
Date: 9 Nov 1992 00:32:26 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Reply-To: Turkish Cultural Program List <TRKNWS-L%USCVM.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>

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  SIGNS OF STABILIZATION IN THE AZERI OIL INDUSTRY

   BAKU (6 NOV.) TURAN: One could observe a tendency to
stabilization in the oil extraction industry, say azeri
economists.
   In october, the oil extraction growth rate increased
slightly and made up 95.7 Percent against the same period of the
last year.
   For the 10 months of the current year, 9.4 Million tons of oil
has been extracted. Skeptics say, the republic is not able
to reach the last-year level of extraction (11.7 Million tons of
oil). An executive of the national oil company "azerineft",
which controls all oil-industry of azerbaijan, assured the turan
correspondent that they would extract no less that 11.3 Million
tons of oil by the end of this year.--0--



   AZERBAIJAN FOLLOWS THE COURSE FOR REORGANIZING ITS
   EDUCATION SYSTEM

    BAKU (6 NOV.) TURAN: Minister of the public education of
azerbaijan, firudin jalilov, announced during a press-conference
that his department had embarked on a package of reforms in the
public education system.
   Public education ministry of azerbaijan was created in
the early 80-es through merging of ministries of education,
higher education and the committee for vocational-technical
education and turned into a huge and bulky bureaucratic body.
    Jalilov informed the press about the planned staff reduction
in the ministry's apparatus up to 30 percent against the
current number and also said that removal of the heads of
the azeri universities was under way.
   The minister avowed his determination to achieve the
financial independence of his department and to shift to
complete self-financing of the educational system.
   Jalilov declared that he would never swing off the course
towards liquidation of the soviet educational system and
transition to the western model of education, more advanced and
less ideological.--0--


   MUSAVAT PARTY WANTS TO BE A LEADER

   BAKU (6 NOV.) TURAN: The third conference for
re-establishment of the musavat party will be held in baku
tomorrow.
   The musavat party emerged into political scene in 1911 and
had been created by mamed-emin rasulzade, one of the founders
of the azerbaijan democratic republic (1918-1920).
   This block was a leading faction in the azerbaijani
parliament in 1918-20, striving for complete independence of
azerbaijan. After the red army's occupation of the republic,
the party went underground. In 1923, the center of the party
moved to turkey, where its activities had been blocked in the
50-es. The center of the party has returned to baku in june of
1992 as the republic proclaimed its independence.
   Chairman of the azeri supreme soviet, one of the leaders
of the center for re-establishment of the musavat party, isa
gambarov, declared:"the party is going to play a leading role
in the political life of azerbaijan".--0--



   CALM IN THE COMBAT ZONE BROKEN

   BAKU (6 NOV.) TURAN: The press-center of the azeri defence
ministry reports that last night, the frontier villages in the
azeri regions of akstafa, tauz, kedabek and zangelan came under
shelling from positions in the republic of armenia. There are
reports on killed and injured. According to the defence
ministry's information, the shelling was going on this morning.
Azeri side was forced to launch countermeasures.
   In the region of fizuli of lower karabakh, the positions of
azeri armed forces and a number of settlements were shelled by
artillery and guns from the positions near the village of
hadrut.
   The calm in the other azeri regions and rest of the combat
zone has not been broken.--0--


   GALINA STAROVOYTOVA'S DISMISSAL FAVORS IMPROVEMENT OF THE
   RUSSIAN-AZERI RELATIONS

   BAKU (7 NOV.) TURAN: A large number of political observers in
azerbaijan believe that starovoytova's dismissal from the
post of the presidential adviser for national crisis would
improve the azeri-russian relations. Such a prognosis is easily
understandable if one is to remember the fact that the ussr
ex-deputy from armenia, starovoytova, both before her assignment
as the presidential adviser and after receiving the post has
been taking tough anti-azeri stand on the karabakh conflict.
Moreover, galina starovoytova has done much to distort the true
state of affairs in azerbaijan.
   Many azeri politicians are sure that it was the activities of
starovoytova and alike that had worsened the azeri-armenian conflict
to a large extent .
  Hidayat orujev, the adviser to the president of azerbaijan
for national security says that the dismissal of starovoytova
- the inspirer of separatism - is a result of the fact that russian
leadership has realized at last that national problems and
separatism in a number of its regions and provinces have turned
into political albatross.--0--



  AZERBAIJAN BACKING THE ARMENIAN INITIATIVE TO START DIRECT
  PEACE TALKS

    BAKU (7 NOV.) TURAN: There is a great variety of approaches
among the azeri leadership and politicians to the appeal of 56
armenian deputies to hold direct negotiations of the leaders of
both states. But in line with that, many azeri deputies say
such an appeal has demanded a certain courage from armenian
deputies and that commands respect. Besides that, the very
initiative on holding direct negotiations has much in common
with the azeri proposals to carry azeri-armenian peace talks
without brokers.
   The presidential adviser for international affairs vafa
guluzade  said :" it is not the diversity of views in
azerbaijan that doubts the very possibility of such talks.
The possibility of carrying out such negotiations would depend
on who wins in armenia - armenian national movement (anm) or
dashnaktsutyun ".
   The dashnaks - adherents of the "war to the last
men-principle" - have more strong positions in karabakh than
anm. Thus, the initiative on opening peace talks may be
implemented only if those advocating peace grow more strong
than the war-happy. But the azeri government is welcoming the
very idea of conducting direct talks without mediators", said
v.Guluzade.--0--


   A DAY OF CALM IN THE COMBAT ZONE

   BAKU (7 NOV.) TURAN: The press-center of the azeri defence
ministry reports that one could observe no large-scale attacks
in the combat zone yesterday. The defence ministry links this
fact to the heavy rain and snow-fall in karabakh and frontier
regions.--0--



  AZERI INTERIOR MINISTRY WANTS TO RETURN MUTALIBOV TO
  AZERBAIJAN

   BAKU (7 NOV.) TURAN: The interior ministry of azerbaijan has
set up a task group to extradite the ex-president of azerbaijan
ayaz mutalibov back to baku.
   Mutalibov is charged with forcible seizure of power on may
14-15 of 1992, illegal introduction of state of emergency during
his government and with criminal negligence that led to many
people's death in the armenian capture of the town of khojali
in february of 1992.
    The public prosecutor's office has brought criminal charges
against the ex-president and approved his arrest after the milly
mejlis passed the decision to void the parliamentary edict of
may 6,1992, granting personal immunity to ayaz mutalibov.--0--



  WARNING OF THE LEZGHINS OF AZERBAIJAN TO OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE

    BAKU (7 NOV.) TURAN: In baku, the participants of the third
conference of the lezghin's cultural center 'samur" have passed
an appeal to the president and chairman of the parliament of
russia and the leadership of daghestan, protesting against the
attempts from outside to clash lezghins with azeris.
   The authors of the appeal stress the inadmissibility of the
interference of official circles of russia and daghestan in the
internal affairs of azerbaijan.
   The lezghin representatives also declared that they had
enough strength and courage to safeguard their rights if needed
and did not need anybody to speak on their behalf.
   As it is known, in past, during the period of "cooling off" of
the azeri-russian relations, the lezghin's movement "sadval" had
sharply gathered momentum, setting forth the idea of creation of
the state of lezghinstan at the expense of some azeri and
daghestan territories.--0--


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