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Rzayev had gotten into his car to be driven to work when he was shot, the private television station Lider reported. Veliyev said investigators were looking at security-camera footage from the home and searching the area for clues, but were hampered by the heavy rains that fell all night. Rzayev, 63, was a longtime Soviet military officer who became head of Azerbaijan's air force shortly after the country gained independence in the 1991 Soviet collapse. As air-defense forces chief, he had represented Azerbaijan in talks with Russia and the U.S. on Moscow's 2007 proposal to make a Soviet-built radar station in Azerbaijan part of a joint missile shield to protect against potential threat from, Iran. The Kremlin proposal failed to persuade the U.S. administration to abandon plans for missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, which Russian officials contend are actually aimed to weaken their country. Moscow uses the Gabala station as part of its early-warning system. It is renting the Gabala station until at least 2012, but is building a radar station in southern Russia as a potential alternative once that lease expires. The United States and European Union have cultivated warm ties with Azerbaijan because of its oil riches and its location on an energy export route bypassing Russia and Iran, and Azerbaijan is one of the few mostly Muslim countries that have sent troops to Iraq. But the U.S. and Europe have expressed concern over government treatment of opponents and independent media under Aliyev, who succeeded his long-ruling father in 2003 after an election the opposition said was rigged. Armenian position on Karabakh doesn't help settlement process Interfax news Agency, 2/12/09 The opinion of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan that there are no legal grounds to restore Azerbaijani jurisdiction over Karabakh does not help resolve the Karabakh problem, Azerbaijani Foreign ministry spokesman Khazar Ibragim told Interfax. "I do not know which notions the Armenian president implies, but Karabakh is an Azerbaijani territory from the legal and historical points of view," he said. "Azerbaijan does not bargain with its lands. It does not plan to waive an inch of its lands either," he said. "There is no Karabakh people. There is a Karabakh population made up of the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities," Ibragim said. As for another statement by Sargsyan, which proclaimed the absence of alternative to peace settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Ibragim said that Azerbaijan adhered to the same principle.
"However, the aforesaid statements by the Armenian president minimize the peaceful settlement potential. Azerbaijan has a full right to self-defense. If Armenia does not quit the position based on the aggression against another state, which, by the way, contradicts any laws, Azerbaijan will naturally use its right," Ibragim said. U.S. OSCE Minsk <strong>Group</strong> co-chairman's remark on N. Karabakh premature Interfax news Agency, 2/16/09 The Armenian Foreign Ministry believes recent remarks by Matthew Bryza, the U.S. cochairman of the OSCE Minsk <strong>Group</strong> mediating in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, was premature and could hamper the negotiating process. Bryza said in a recent interview that the drafting of an agreement settling the conflict was nearing completion. He suggested that the agreement should be based on the territorial integrity principle and should mention nations' right to self-determination and non-use of military force. "The purpose of this statement is unclear. You get the impression that such a commentary could have been made only to hinder the negotiating process on the Madrid proposals, which are based on three equally valuable principles of international law, such as non-use of force or a threat of such use, the right to self-determination, and territorial integrity," Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said. "Armenia has said repeatedly that a key issue of the conflict is the recognition and enforcement of the Nagorno-Karabakh people's right to self-determination. The negotiations are now being held on principles of settling the conflict, and there is no agreement on them now. Therefore, it is too early to talk about such an agreement," Balayan said. Learn about PILPG’s work in Armenia Return to Table of Contents Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia protests suspension of war crimes trial Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press, 2/12/09 Serbia on Thursday protested the U.N. war crime tribunal's suspension of the trial of ultranationalist Serb leader Vojislav Seselj.
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