news azerbaijan in article aa dumbo mem odu edu farid mem odu edu f h miandoab writes the following news from turan news agency in baku azerbaijan is brought to you as a service of azerbaijan aydinlig association p o box berkeley ca fax email farid mem odu edu p l e a s e make a hard copy of the news available to an azerbaijani near you h e a d l i n e s the new vice premier plans to intensify the work on the attraction of western investments the proposal to summon special session of the supreme soviet is rejected again the prospects of trade economic cooperation between azerbaijan and estonia azerbaijan does not intend to join the cis common economic zone the questions of granting credit to azerbaijan will be discussed in moscow azerbaijan will reply to the second variant of trilateral initiative by of may the announcement of the prosecutor of the republic of azerbaijan azerbaijan s parliament intends to appeal to russian parliament regarding the six accused soldiers armenians are preparing more karabakhs on the north caucasus state assistance for national minority development memorandum of cooperation on extracting oil gas fields of azerbaijan was signed armenia taking advantage of the prosecution of six russian soldiers new provocations of armed forces of armenia unocal company will build houses for refugees in azerbaijan manat is beginning to fall in value the discussion of parliamentary election bill will last till mid july isa gambar suggests that azeri russian parliament commission for clarifying the circumstances of the criminal case be created will the trilateral initiative be ruined fate of million tons of oil will be decided this summer the scientists lawyers of russia appealed to the president of azerbaijan armenian artillery continues firing on azeri districts azeri prime minister is leaving for great britain the new vice premier plans to intensify the work on the attraction of western investments baku may turan yesterday rasul guliyev the recently appointed vice premier of the republic received the us ambassador in azerbaijan richard miles as azerbaijan newspaper informs the issue of attraction of western investments in azerbaijan was discussed in the meeting in particular gulyiev stated that western capital has to be investigated in the most profitable spheres of manufacture he also noticed that the number of the priority manufactures will be released from debts guliyev also said that intensifying the activities of the american oil companies will promote the strengthening of the american azeri relations the proposal to summon special session of the supreme soviet is rejected again baku may turan yesterday in the sitting of the milli mejlis the chairman isa gambar rejected the proposal of the deputy arif rahimzade to summon a special session of the supreme soviet of azerbaijan this written proposal to summon a session was signed by deputates but the chairman said that the signatures were invalid and the proposal couldn t be submitted for discussion earlier the leadership of the milli mejlis called the proposal to summon a special session of the supreme soviet a coup attempt but the deputy for the parliament rahimzade doesn t consider that the deputates have the objective of removing milli mejlis and its chairman from the power it concerns the serious analysis of the social economic and foreign policy activity of the republic s authority rahimzade said that the deputates for the parliament ejected from their duties one year ago have the rights to express their opinion on these questions the supreme soviet of azerbaijan deputates was dissolved one year ago when it attempted to bring ayaz mutalibov back to the power the functions of s s were handed over to milli mejlis consisting of deputates democrats and partocrates at that time democrats and partocrates came to an agreement that milli mejlis wouldn t exist for a long time and would be dissolved after parliamentary elections at the same time the deputates ejected from their duties were guaranteed that they could summon a session of the supreme soviet any time and went in for political activity out of the parliament the prospects of trade economic cooperation between azerbaijan and estonia baku may turan the prospects of signing trade economic agreement between azerbaijan and estonia were discussed in the meeting of the foreign minister tofig gasimov with the group of experts of the ministry of economics minister of foreign affairs and estonian bank administration on may the group of experts is headed by tikht reiman the chief of the ministry of economics of estonia the mia of azerbaijan informed turan agency that in their stay in baku the delegation will also visit ministry of economics and national bank of the republic azerbaijan does not intend to join the cis common economic zone baku may turan deputy prime ministers of the republic vahid ahmedov and abbas abbasov declared that azerbaijan wouldn t join the cis common economic zone vahid ahmedov considers that the cis economic zone proposal to create a common tax system contradicts independent economic policy of the republic according to abbas abbasov the pact of cooperation proposals submitted for the discussion of the leaders of cis states in moscow on may has a number of unfavorable points for azerbaijan such announcements of two deputy prime ministers sound sensational on the background of the fact that the president of azerbaijan and the chairman of the parliament noted the necessity of the republic on joining the cis economic zone the questions of granting credit to azerbaijan will be discussed in moscow baku may turan today azerbaijani delegation headed by the director of the foreign relation department of the ministry of finance of the republic along with the representatives of the national bank will leave for moscow to hold consultation with russian government on granting credit to azerbaijan according to the preliminary information the credit will be billion rubles as press centre of ministry of finance informed turan s correspondent precise amount of the credit conditions of its repay and a number of other questions of mutual interest will be discussed in the course of the meeting in moscow it is known that this credit will be mostly used for mutual settling of industrial enterprises of azerbaijan and russia when the sides reach the agreement it is proposed for signing by the end of may azerbaijan will reply to the second variant of trilateral initiative by of may baku may turan on the measures for peace presented by russia turkey and the usa to azerbaijan and armenia the representative of the president of azerbaijan in the talks on nagorno karabakh asim gasimov noted that the plan was not seriously changed in comparison with the first variant just some comments to several points were added to the schedule by insistence of the armenian side we do not intend to come back to the analysis of the schedule because we have given a positive answer to it on may said gasimov the representative of the president of azerbaijan informed that they just began to work on the examination of the commentary and their answer would be given as requested by the authors of trilateral initiative by may as it is known the first variant of the peace measures was rejected by armenia which put forward a number of pre conditions for its acceptance the announcement of the prosecutor of the republic of azerbaijan baku may turan the azerbaijani prosecutor s office has announced that the russian mass media s attempt to portray the russian soldiers condemned by the military board of the azerbaijani supreme court as innocent people is unjustified accounts of the witnesses and the confessions of the condemned themselves prove that their crimes were committed together with the armenian military units and with the knowledge of the headquarters of the russian army unit where they served the announcement points out that the attempts to represent these soldiers as ordinary mercenaries who have nothing to do with the russian army are also unfounded for there are irrefutable evidences that these soldiers were on the list of one of the military unit s of russian commandos in yerevan certain russian circles try to conceal the fact of direct participation of the russian army in the undeclared war of armenia against azerbaijan from the russian community azerbaijan s prosecutor s announcement follows that this type of actions can make the situation in the region much more complicated azerbaijan s parliament intends to appeal to russian parliament regarding the six accused soldiers baku may turan as turan agency was informed parliament of azerbaijan is considering the question of appealing to russian parliament about the six accused soldiers fortune in particular the offer to send the representatives of the commission on military affairs of the armed forces of russian federation to baku for the detailed study of the results of six russian soldiers case will be directed to russian parliament according to one of the supporters of this offer such initiative will give russian parliament the possibility to be convinced of the correctness of the investigation there will also be a chance to discuss the reasons that have given rise to the present situation that is the russian troops participation in the war against azerbaijan armenians are preparing more karabakhs on the north caucasus baku may turan the national liberation front founded by group of armenians living on the north caucasus appealed to establish armenian autonomies on the territories of rostov stavropol and krasnodar regions reported the newspaper russky vestnik on march published in geneva the north caucasus is regarded as an integral part of armenia in the documents of this organization admitting the non realizability of reunion of the north caucasus and armenia proper at present the front is appealing to the un presidents of russia armenia and the united states to consider the need to establish armenian autonomies on the caucasus to attain these goals the armenian organization considers it necessary to carry out on the north caucasus the forms and methods of activity identical to those in nagorno karabakh besides the decision to fund cells of armenian national liberation fronts in every settlement and to appeal to leaders of armenian terrorist groups in greece and iran to sent to the north caucasus instructors for training of armenian youth to wage secret wars was adopted thus according to the newspaper russky vestnik new karabakhs are being planning on the north caucasus o state assistance for national minority development baku may turan the meeting headed by the state secretary of azerbaijan ali kerimov with the participation of the national cultural centers was held in baku the first results of the realization of the president elchibey s decree on state assistance for the development of language and culture of national minorities adopted on september were considered the state secretary called this decree as an important step to establish a legal democratic state he confirmed once more the commitment of the leadership of azerbaijan to set up a democratic society in which the rights of all nationalities and ethnic groups would be respected the state counsellor of the president of azerbaijan on the national policy hidayat orujev announced that in spite of the difficulties of the undeclared war against the republic the leaders of the state managed to solve many problems concerning the satisfaction of cultural and other needs of the ethnic groups for today all national cultural centers registered by the ministry of justice in the capital of azerbaijan are provided with accommodation furniture and means of communication all the accommodations are rent free foreign diplomatic missions in baku are placed in the hotels because of the absence of free accommodations including the representation of the un general secretary as it was noted a great work was carried out since the decree was adopted to create conditions for total development of the ethnic groups on the north of azerbaijan where lezghins live a national lezghin theater was opened radiocast is transmitted in lezghin the work over the creation of the educational literature for talyshs tats lezghins and kurds and national teaching and scientific staff is being carried out in the academy of sciences of azerbaijan o memorandum of cooperation on extracting oil gas fields of azerbaijan was signed baku may turan as turan agency was informed in the state concern azerineft the memorandum of understanding with the companies amoco caspian sea petroleum bi pi exploration operating pennzoil caspian unocal khazar ltd mcdermott and turkish oil corporation on mutual extracting of fields azeri chirag and gyuneshli was signed according to the memorandum the general group on preparing of a common program of activity was created according to the president of azerineft sabit bagirov cooperation will provide for using the experience of foreign companies more efficiently during the project the main principles will be the effective use of oil gas resources the rational sharing of investments the reducing of exploitation expenditures and maximizing the profit of azerbaijan from the exploitation of these fields the memorandum also envisions the necessity to take into account the historical and political economical interests of azerbaijan under optimum use of oil gas fields o armenia taking advantage of the prosecution of six russian soldiers baku may turan after azerbaijani court passed sentence on six russian soldiers fighting on the armenian side in karabakh armenian propaganda has become actively involved the armenians living in russia appealed to the president yeltsin with a request to display firmness in asserting the rights of russian soldiers at the same time armenian mass media call legal proceedings on the case in baku as a farce aimed at getting more arms from russia the karabakh armenians have issued a threat recently if one could believe the yerevan agency snark the armenians in karabakh presented an ultimatum to authorities in azerbaijan the essence of this ultimatum is that if russian soldiers are not shown mercy three azeri prisoners in karabakh will be shot dead it is simple to explain such touching attitude of armenians to the six russian soldiers fate if by chance the sentence is executed it will cause not anti azeri but anti armenian reaction as the accused russian soldiers were recruited in yerevan by the former defence minister of armenia and then transferred to karabakh if the soldiers get mercy armenian side will think highly of its saving of lives of innocent russians o new provocations of armed forces of armenia baku may turan according to the defence ministry of azerbaijan on may the firing on the territories of azerbaijan from the military bases on the territory of armenia was in progress the day before the villages of kolly gyshlag shotaraz nyachaflar of zangelan district of azerbaijan were under fire from kafan district of armenia two inhabitants were wounded there were destructions in the villages on may the firing on the villages of bashkend mutudere shynykh novosaratovka and novoivanovka of kedabek district of azerbaijan from the positions of armenian armed forces was in progress at the same day the diversion group of the armed forces of armenia men violated the frontier of azerbaijan penetrated into the territory of kedabek district of azerbaijan killed two shepherds at the village of aili dara and made an attempt to take a flock across the frontier azeri frontier guards stopped the enemy o unocal company will build houses for refugees in azerbaijan baku may turan as turan agency was informed by the representation of unocal american oil company the leaders of this company decided to give thousand dollars for the construction of houses for refugees at present the american side suggested a village project for consideration by appropriate departments of azerbaijan the project is a farm village where each house has a personal lot subsidiary accommodations and so on according to the program the construction and putting into operation of the village will be this year o manat is beginning to fall in value baku may turan lately at the black market of baku the national currency manat fell in price compared with the russian ruble thus one gives rubles or manats for one us dollar taking into account the official exchange value of the manat with respect to ruble which is the national currency fell in value percent meanwhile the exchange value of the manat to the ruble is the same at banks state establishments and in trade according to the representatives of the business circles and experts the present situation is explained by the fact that the rubles are bought by the local businessmen they need rubles for financial operations in russia as the remittance of payments from the republics of the former ussr to russia is a great problem now many businessmen arrange deals in cash taking into consideration the volume of business with russia counted by billions it is not hard to imagine how much rubles in cash the businessmen need o the discussion of parliamentary election bill will last till mid july baku may turan according to the president s decree the expert group including representatives of the parliament and presidential apparatus are working out new wording of the constitution of the republic of azerbaijan this must be adopted by milli mejlis before the parliamentary elections together with this the work on the new constitution that would be evidently adopted by new parliament of the country is going on the newsmen were informed about the work on the press conference of the supreme soviet of the republic the day before parliamentary legal experts safa mirzoyev simran hasanov and representatives of the department of the president s apparatus fazil mustafaev and shahin aliev took part in the press conference the national discussion of the project of the parliamentary election law is going on at present according to simran hasanov the bill didn t cause any objections it was noted that until now no alternative variant of the election law was put forward the newsmen were also informed that parliamentary commissions will examine all coming proposals till june by june all proposals will be generalized and submitted for discussion in milli mejlis isa gambar suggests that azeri russian parliament commission for clarifying the circumstances of the criminal case be created baku may turan the chairman of the milly mejlis of the azerbaijan republic isa gambar sent the return letter to the chairman of the russian supreme soviet ruslan khasbulatov in connection with the conviction of the russian servicemen lieutenant v semion sergeant k tukish m lisov and a filipov by the military college of the supreme court of azerbaijan in his letter isa gambar suggested that the commission of azerbaijan milly mejlis deputates on a par with the experts of the russian supreme soviet be established to clarify the circumstances of this criminal case in his view the conclusion of the commission could help in the objective solving of this problem as well as such kind of problems in the future but the main thing is it could help to promote the knowledge about involvement of the russian servicemen in crime in its turn in connection with the russian parliament message milly mejlis adopted a resolution on may according to which the permanent commissions on government building and legal policy human rights and international relations are charged with the exploration of this problem will the trilateral initiative be ruined baku may turan as turan agency was informed russian representative to the talks on karabakh vladimir kazimirov doubted in realization of the trilateral initiative he expressed this opinion during a telephone talk with the representatives of azerbaijan at the same talk he declared that in case the peace process deadlocked russia would pursue yeltsin s initiative itself such statement from the russian diplomat who is one of the authors of the trilateral initiative suggests that the russian leadership is paving the way for complete exclusion of the usa and probably turkey from the peacemaking process this statement can also mean that russia and us having achieved understanding on bosnian problem have agreed on partial us departure from transcaucasia fate of million tons of oil will be decided this summer baku may turan the president of azerbaijan state oil company sabit bagirov declared recently that complete treaty on development of oil fields chirag azeri and guneshli would be signed this summer as it is known western oil companies amoco bp statoil pennzoil ramco have an interest on development of these three richest caspian fields according to the plan socar and bp statoil are to sign a complete treaty on development of chirag field on june later amoco and pennzoil will sign treaties specialists value total reserves of these three fields to be million ton million of them fall on azeri field mln ton on geneshli and mln ton on chirag the exploitation of these fields is to last tens of years and it is to bring in azerbaijan billion dollars in revenue in addition to the net economic profit baku calculates upon the political support of the west in the defence of its interests at the international scene as president elchibey said in his closest encirclement the may of will be one of the most difficult periods for azerbaijan and its independence and we have to stand these tests the scientist lawyers of russia appealed to the president of azerbaijan baku may turan as the press service of the president of azerbaijan informs today the appeal of the institute of the government and law of the russian academy of sciences to president elchibey was received the appeal contains the call to display mercy humanism and clemency on the death sentences of the former servicemen of the russian armed forces the authors of the appeal point out that they don t justify the participation of the russian servicemen in the war against the azeri people don t call in question the lawfulness of the passed sentence denounce the mercenary according to the un principals and they are sorry about the russian servicemen being drawn in such grave crime at the end of their letter scientists mentioning the soldiers mothers tears and grief their praying day and night of safety ask the president of azerbaijan to save those guys it should be noticed that unlike lawyers soldiers mothers taking part in the inquiry called the cause of their grief only russian policy according to their words the leaders that lay down lives of russian men to achieve their political aims must be made answerable unfortunately the appeal didn t mention the grief of the mothers of azerbaijani soldiers killed by sentenced russian servicemen armenian artillery continues firing on azeri districts baku may turan on may two soldiers of national army of azerbaijan were killed during the grad shelling of the villages of kolly gyshlag shaifly shotaraz nyachaflar of zangelan district of the republic from the territory of kafan district of armenia the night before and in the morning of may the villages of tovuz gazakh and gubatly districts of azerbaijan were under fire from the territory of armenia there are destructions the situation in agder district of azerbaijan became complicated on may the enemy fired on the regional centre of agdere from the village of ortakend the transportation of man power and military equipment to this district is in progress according to reports the enemy is setting up a new weapon emplacement to fire on the regional centre and near by villages according to the ministry of internal affairs the concentration of man power and military equipment is observed in krasnoselsky district of armenia which borders on azerbaijan as well as on the frontier with fizuli district o azeri prime minister is leaving for great britain baku may turan the minister of foreign economic relations rauf garayev in his interview to turan agency said that great britain is the biggest foreign economic partner of azerbaijan after iran the business cooperation between the two countries develops in such spheres as oil industry the manufacture of oil extraction equipment communication and agriculture according to the minister s words the forthcoming visit of azerbaijani prime minister panah huseynov to great britain on may is very important it is expected that the visit will help to solve the problems of opening in azerbaijan the branch offices of some british banks insurance firms to conclude contracts on the sphere of manufacture of agricultural equipment on building in azerbaijan off shore oil platforms and reconstruction of the entire communication system of azerbaijan in garayev s view the expansion of the cooperation with great britain will have a great political meaning for azerbaijan according to politicians and reviewers in baku at present great britain as an european state is close to azerbaijan the continuation of the economic and political cooperation of the two states is foreseen o t u r a n n e w s a g e n c y baku azerbaijan phone fax telex meta su serdar argic we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the turks and then proceeded in the work of extermination ohanus appressian in soviet armenia today there no longer exists a single turkish soul sahak melkonian
