DISCUSSIONS ON NAGORNO KARABAKH PROBLEM TO BE HELD IN SCOTLANDDecember 10, 2003 - 23:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - An expanded sitting of the South Caucasian inter-parliamentary initiative with the participation of the deputies from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will be held in Scotland December 16-20. According to the Baku mass media, a separate meeting of the Armenian and Azeri delegations dedicated to the issue of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement will take place on the first day of the forum in the town of Speyside. The principal sitting will be conducted in Edinburgh, where the delegations of all the South Caucasian countries will consider a number of urgent regional issues. As vice-speaker of the Armenian National Assembly stated earlier, the Armenian party will produce Armenian parliament's political forces' joint statement on Karabakh. To remind, two meetings - in Strasbourg and Tbilisi - have already been held within the frames of the South Caucasian inter-parliamentary initiative 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. |