Azerbaijan not to sign CIC Energy Council's "road map"May 29, 2009 - 23:48 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan will not sign CIS Energy Council's "road map" because it's not a State Party to the CIS Treaty on Common Energy Market, Azerenergy JSC Vice President Marlen Askerov said during CIS Energy Council's 35th session organized in Baku."Azerbaijan does not have to sign the agreement because it's already prepared for creating such market," Askerov said. Azerbaijan is ready to sign the environmental monitoring agreement, but the word market should not be included in the Council's decision on road map, he added. During the session, parties also proposed that electric energy ecological monitoring be conducted for 2008. The 2007 monitoring on the realization of environmental road map was conducted among 7 member states. Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia refused to participate in monitoring. The results have already sent to Euroelectric, day.az reports. Top stories Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". Partner news | Concept to complete Yerevan Cascade discussed at city hall A conceptual proposal to complete the Cascade complex in downtown Yerevan has been presented by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Pashinyan visits flood-hit region Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday, June 8 visited the disaster area in the Lori province. €3.5 mln EU grant to support justice reforms in Armenia The European Union has paid €3.5 mln grant to Armenia within a €11mln program on Support to Justice Reforms. Yerevan reacts to Baku’s proposal to see Minsk Group abolition Alen Simonyan has declared that Armenia is taking steps aimed at concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. |