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Everybody just loves the Azeris
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apparently Armenia and Iran arent the only countries azerbaijan has claims against.
Turkmenistan Bigger Problem For Azerbaijan Than Karabakh
The leadership of Azerbaijan keeps insisting that it wants the Nagorno Karabakh problem be solved keeping the territorial integrity of the country intact. Now an expert from Turkey says that the territorial dispute in the Caspian Sea with Turkmenistan is a bigger worry for Azerbaijan than Nagorno Karabakh.
As the talks and negotiations have increased between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the later has not missed a single opportunity to remind the international community that the Nagorno Karabakh issue should be solved within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and making the right for self-determination of the Nagorno Karabakah Armenians inferior to that. However, come and see that the international borders of Azerbaijan are also disputed by Turkmenistan, which will take a dispute with Azerbaijan over Caspian oil and gas fields to the International Court of Arbitration.
Speaking to Sunday's Zaman, the head of the Center for International Relations and Strategic Analysis (TÜRKSAM) Sinan Oğan called the issues between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan "a bigger problem." He said that Turkmenistan's decision to sue Azerbaijan in the last minute over the status of the Caspian Sea can create a problem for the Nabucco pipeline's gas supply. “It seems it will be a problem,” he concluded.
This growing problem will be another headache for Azerbaijan and as TURKSAM expert from Turkey called it may create a problem for the Nabucco's gas supply. The feasibility of the Nabucco gas pipeline project depends mostly on the ability to use the Caspian gas.
On July 24, speaking at government meeting, the president of Turkmenistan Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov slammed Azerbaijan for its "intransigence." "For a long time, mainly because of Azerbaijan's stance, the issue of settling seabed borders, dividing natural resources and defining the boundary line between the two countries has not been resolved," Berdymukhamedov said in televised comments.
According to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet the president of Turkmenistan instructed its Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov to examine the legality of Azerbaijan's claims to disputed offshore fields. He said the case would be taken to the international body and "we will accept any decision on this questions made by the International Court of Arbitration." Azerbaijan has begun unilateral development of disputed oil and gas fields, and is seeking rights to other deposits in the Caspian, Berdymukhamedov said.
Azerbaijan has been in another territorial dispute with Nagorno Karabakh's Republic, which used the right of self-determination and has declared independence after a national referendum. United States, France and Russia are mediating a process hoping to bring about a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia. To this date Azerbaijan's actions are hindering the peace process because the country is not willing to recognize the right of self-determination of the people of Nagorno Karabakh. However, prolonging the conflict and making occasional war-like statements and now being involved in a new territorial dispute with Turkmenistan (which according to the Turkish political expert is a bigger problem for NABUCCO) will weaken Azerbaijan's position and it may lose more than what the country can achieve today by making honorable peace with Armenia based on mutual compromise.
Otherwise, while Azerbaijan's leadership has not so far explained how a war can bring back Nagorno Karabakh it may seriously endanger its another big project: the NABUCCO. Many European countries are hopeful on NABUCCO's gas supply and will be interested to see Azerbaijan to solve these two disputes in peaceful and swift way.
Written by Armen Hareyan
http://www.huliq.com/1/84692/turkish...aijan-karabakh
Turkmenistan Bigger Problem For Azerbaijan Than Karabakh
The leadership of Azerbaijan keeps insisting that it wants the Nagorno Karabakh problem be solved keeping the territorial integrity of the country intact. Now an expert from Turkey says that the territorial dispute in the Caspian Sea with Turkmenistan is a bigger worry for Azerbaijan than Nagorno Karabakh.
As the talks and negotiations have increased between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the later has not missed a single opportunity to remind the international community that the Nagorno Karabakh issue should be solved within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and making the right for self-determination of the Nagorno Karabakah Armenians inferior to that. However, come and see that the international borders of Azerbaijan are also disputed by Turkmenistan, which will take a dispute with Azerbaijan over Caspian oil and gas fields to the International Court of Arbitration.
Speaking to Sunday's Zaman, the head of the Center for International Relations and Strategic Analysis (TÜRKSAM) Sinan Oğan called the issues between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan "a bigger problem." He said that Turkmenistan's decision to sue Azerbaijan in the last minute over the status of the Caspian Sea can create a problem for the Nabucco pipeline's gas supply. “It seems it will be a problem,” he concluded.
This growing problem will be another headache for Azerbaijan and as TURKSAM expert from Turkey called it may create a problem for the Nabucco's gas supply. The feasibility of the Nabucco gas pipeline project depends mostly on the ability to use the Caspian gas.
On July 24, speaking at government meeting, the president of Turkmenistan Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov slammed Azerbaijan for its "intransigence." "For a long time, mainly because of Azerbaijan's stance, the issue of settling seabed borders, dividing natural resources and defining the boundary line between the two countries has not been resolved," Berdymukhamedov said in televised comments.
According to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet the president of Turkmenistan instructed its Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov to examine the legality of Azerbaijan's claims to disputed offshore fields. He said the case would be taken to the international body and "we will accept any decision on this questions made by the International Court of Arbitration." Azerbaijan has begun unilateral development of disputed oil and gas fields, and is seeking rights to other deposits in the Caspian, Berdymukhamedov said.
Azerbaijan has been in another territorial dispute with Nagorno Karabakh's Republic, which used the right of self-determination and has declared independence after a national referendum. United States, France and Russia are mediating a process hoping to bring about a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia. To this date Azerbaijan's actions are hindering the peace process because the country is not willing to recognize the right of self-determination of the people of Nagorno Karabakh. However, prolonging the conflict and making occasional war-like statements and now being involved in a new territorial dispute with Turkmenistan (which according to the Turkish political expert is a bigger problem for NABUCCO) will weaken Azerbaijan's position and it may lose more than what the country can achieve today by making honorable peace with Armenia based on mutual compromise.
Otherwise, while Azerbaijan's leadership has not so far explained how a war can bring back Nagorno Karabakh it may seriously endanger its another big project: the NABUCCO. Many European countries are hopeful on NABUCCO's gas supply and will be interested to see Azerbaijan to solve these two disputes in peaceful and swift way.
Written by Armen Hareyan
http://www.huliq.com/1/84692/turkish...aijan-karabakh
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