From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Azeri news
Date: 16 Aug 92 22:01:00 GMT
Reply-To: Turkish Cultural Program List <TRKNWS-L%USCVM.BITNET@forsythe.Stanford.EDU>

AZERI FOREIGN MINISTRY DENIES THE ACCUSATIONS OF ARMENIA

Baku, 12 August 92, TURAN: In responce to the statement and notes,
made by the Foreign Ministry of Armenia, the Azeri Foreign Ministry
made a statement, denying the Armenian accusations of Azerbaijan of
agression and wrecking the process of peaceful settlement of the
Karabakh conflict.  The statement outlines that the peaceful
agreements, negotiated in Minsk and Tehran have been wrecked
through the Armenian capture of the Azeri towns of Khojali, Shusha
and Lachin.  All the efforts of the CSCE, aimed at settling of the
conflict, have been deadlocked by the Armenian claims to grant a
special status for the representatives of the Armenian community of
Nagorno-Karabakh.  Regarding the current Azeri military operations
in the region of Kedabek, the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan
stresses that the village of Bashkend /Artzvashen/, which lies in
Azerbaijan, has been turned to Armenian military base and
Azerbaijan has to take appropriate measures to defend its citizens.

MILITARY TRIBUNALS SET UP IN AZERBAIJAN

Baku, 12 August 92, TURAN: The military tribunals of first instance
have been set up by the resolution of the National Council in the
towns of Gyaja, Lenkoran and Fizuli.  A tribunal is represented by
three judges and 150 assesors.

AZERI PARLIAMENT HAS AT LAST THOUGHT ABOUT JOURNALISTS

Baku, 12 August 92, TURAN: Today the National Council of the Azeri
Parliament passed a resolution on privileges for the workers of the
republic's mass-media.  In accordance with the resolution, from
July 1 of this year newspapers and magazines should be subsidized
from the state's budget for buying paper and paying rent for the
premises.  Journalists will not also pay fare for public
transportation, except for taxi.  Publishing houses, issuing the
children's literature and textbooks and also newspapers and
magazines have been released from paying 28 vat /value added tax/.
Unfortunately, the deputies have not reduced prices for inter-city
and international means of communication, such as teletype, telex
and fax.  Thus, the resolution covers all Azeri journalists, except
the workers of the information agencies.

ARMENIAN ATTACKS ON THE AZERI REGIONS OF KAZAKH AND AKSTAFA

Baku, 12 August 92, TURAN: The press-center of the Azeri Defence
Ministry reports that last night large sub-units of the Armenian
army, after massive shelling of the frontier villages in the
Azerbaijani regions of Kazakh and Akstafa, launched an attack on
them.  The attack has been repelled.  8 Civilians have been killed
and 27 injured in the shelling of the villages.  This morning,
sub-units of the Armenian National Army, trying to compensate their
defeat in the region of Kedabek, contunued shelling of the Azeri
villages from the positions in the Armenian region of Krasnoselsk.
The village of Bashkend also came under Armenian shelling.  There
are reports on killed and injured.  The villages suffered much
destructions.  There are reports of the combats resumed today in
the region of Agdere, where the Azeri army is pressing the enemy
from all their positions.  The villages of Khidirli, Akhmedovar and
Chukhurmekhe in the region of Agdam, Tzur and Dashbashi in the
region of Jebrail and the district center of Fizuli were shelled
again.  The village of Sadarak and a number of villages in the
regions of Ordubad and Sharur of the Republic of Nakhichevan are
coming under Armenian shelling since last night.  Azeri self-
Defence forces are conducting a counter-fire.

AZERBAIJAN STRENGTHENING ITS ARMY

Baku, 12 August 92, TURAN: The president of Azerbaijan issued an
edict on calling for the military service of reservists and
demobees from the CIS joint armed-forces, transferred to the
reserve in 1991-92.  The edict outlines that such a step has been
made "through the arisen need in commander's cadre and trained
personnel while creating the Azeri armed forces and carring out
military operations."  Besides that, the edict prolongs the term of
the military service for the soldiers and sergeants, serving in the
Azeri armed forces, linked it to the term of the warfare, going on
in Azerbaijan.  The Defence Ministry was commissioned to recall in
a 30 day-term all soldiers and sergeants, calling for their service
from Azerbaijan and serving in the CIS joint armed forces, to carry
their military service in the Azeri National Army.

AZERI FOREIGN MINISTRY WISHES TO HEAR THE VATICAN CITY STATE`S
EXPLANATIONS

Baku, 12 August 92, TURAN: Azeri Foreign Ministry filed a note to
the embassy of the Vatican in Moscow, asking for explanation of the
fact that the Vatican's Foreign Minister, as mass-media reports,
received the representatives of so-called Nagorno-Karabakh
republic, participating in the Rome peace talks for
Nagorno-Karabakh as observers.  The Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan
expresses its deep concern in connection with the fact that this
reception has been interpreted by the press as the Vatican's
readiness to recognize the illegally proclaimed NKR.  Azeri Foreign
Ministry asked Vatican to clear up the matter.

AZERBAIJAN AND RUSSIAN AGREED NOT TO ESTABLISH COMMON STATE BORDERS

Baku, 12 August 92, TURAN: Hikmet Haji-Zade, Azeri plenipotentiary
representative to Moscow, reported that Azerbaijan and Russia
passed a resolution, running that these two countries would not
establish a state border, separating their territories.  According
the resolution, the population from Azerbaijan and Russia is
granted a right to visit these republics without any visa.  It
looks like that this agreement will help to settle the acute
question, beeing of the supreme concern to the Lezghines and
Azeris, living on the south of Daghestan and north of Azerbaijan.

BALTIC COUNTRIES WILL TREAT WOUNDED AZERIS FROM KARABAKH

Baku, 12 August 92, TURAN: Farhad Hejdarli, Azeri representative to
Estonia, reports that soon 35 non-combatants, injured in the war in
Karabakh and the Azeri frontier villages, would go away for medical
treatment to Latvia and Estonia.  F. Heidarli said that Latvia
consented to accept 20 wounded and Estonia - 15.  That is the first
group of the wounded that will undergo a cure in baltic countries.

ARMENIAN ATTACKS ON THE AZERI WESTERN BOUNBARIES REPELLED

Baku, 13 August 92, TURAN: The press-center of the Defence Ministry
reports that last night Armenian forces continued its attacks on
the Azeri regions of Kazakh and Akstafa.  Despite of the fact that
the assaulters brought large forces to these regions, the Armenians
proved a failure there.  Early in the morning, Azeri sub-units,
launching a counter- attack, delivered a hard blow to Armenians.
Azeri side captured two tanks and four bmp.  Besides that, they
destroyed several guns and the installations of "grad".  Four
Armenian soldiers have been taken as prisoners.  The villages of
Ivanovka, Novosaratovka and Mor-Mor in the region of Kedabek are
coming under Armenian shelling.  After yesterday"s large-scale
combats, taken place in the region of Agdere, a lull has
established there.  Last night the town of Agdam came under massive
shelling from the positions of the Armenian bases in Askeran.  Five
civilians have been wounded in the shelling.

AZERBAIJAN AND RUSSIA HAVE WORKED OUT THE DRAFT OF THE BILATERAL
AGREEMENT ON FRENDSHIP AND MUTIAL SECURITY

baku, 13 August 92, TURAN: Hikmet Haji-Zade, Azeri plenipotentiary
representative to Moscow said to the TURAN correspondent that the
expert's groups from these two republics have already completed the
draft of the Azerbaijani-Russian bilateral agreement.  In
accordance with the agreement, the sides are engeged to recognize
the sovereignty and territorial integrity of each other.  The draft
has also the paragraph, running that the sides are engaged to evict
from their territories the organizations, seeking for revision of
the state borders of any of these republics.  The agreement does
not rule out a possibility of signing the similar bilateral
agreement between Azerbaijan and other state.  H.  Haji-zade said
that the Azeri side did not agree to insert into the draft the
paragraph on establishment of common economic area and setting up
of autonomus formations on the territories of these two republics.
Touching upon the Karabakh question, Haji-zade outlined that
"solution of this question will greatly depend on whether the U.S.
and Russian interests in this region coincide.  Each power is
seeking for such a solution that would ensure the priority of its
own interests in Transcaucasia."

AZERI NATIONAL CURRENCY HAS 16 SECRETS

Baku, 13 August 92, TURAN: Vakhid Akhmedov, first Deputy
Prime-Minister declared that the Azeri national currency "Manat" is
safely protected from forgery, because it has 16 secrets.

MOSCOW GOVERMENT DELEGATION ARRIVES IN BAKU

Baku, 13 August 92, TURAN: The goverment delegation of Moscow,
headed by the first Deputy Mayor of Moscow N. Bakirov, is expected
to arrive in Baku this afternoon.  The aim of the visit is to
discuss the mechanics of implementation of the agreement on
economic and cultural co-operation, signed between the leadership
of Azerbaijan and Moscow in the Russian capital in July of this
year.  The guests are expected to conduct talks with the
Azerbaijani president Abulfaz Elchibey, the speaker of the
parliament Isa Gambarov and also with other leaders of the
republic.
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