Nagorno Karabakh - The Place Where WW3 begins.....

China is making Deals with the Current Government...

Chinese Firm Vows Massive Investments In Armenian Iron Mining

A major Chinese energy company pledged on Wednesday to invest about $500 million in developing and expanding three Armenian iron mines in which it purchased a significant stake last month.

Top executives of the Hong Kong-headquartered firm Fortune Oil discussed its planned business operations in Armenia with Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.

Fortune Oil announced on January 14 that is has paid $24 million to acquire a 35 percent share in Bounty Resources Armenia Limited (BRAL), a little-known company that controls the untapped iron deposits in three different parts of the country. Fortune Oil has the option of raising the stake to 50 percent for an additional $16 million.

The deposits are estimated to contain between them some 1.8 million tons of proven or probable iron reserves. The largest and least explored of them is located near Svarants village in the southeastern Syunik province.

[link to www.azatutyun.am]

Here is the US/EU's favored Armenian...

Ter-Petrosian Insists On Snap Polls, Warns Of Anti-Government Unrest

Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian warned Armenia’s leadership to hold fresh elections or face the kind of unrest that has rocked Arab states as he held his largest rally since the bloody suppression of his 2008 post-election protests in Yerevan on Friday.

His Armenian National Congress (HAK) alliance, meanwhile, told supporters to get ready for “very serious events.”

Addressing thousands of people who gathered in the city center, Ter-Petrosian drew parallels between the situations in Armenia and several Arab nations that have seen massive anti-government protests in recent weeks. He compared President Serzh Sarkisian with the deposed rulers of Egypt and Tunisia.

“The plight of our people is no better than the plight of the peoples of those countries, and Armenia’s regime is no less dictatorial and hated than the regimes in those countries,” he told the crowd before it marched through downtown Yerevan.

[link to www.azatutyun.am]

Here is what Wikileaks had to say about this frontman...

ANC denies Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s complicity in Iranian drug traffic

Feb 1st 2011

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian National Congress coordinator Levon Zurabyan labeled reports that ANC leader, Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan was involved in Iranian drug traffic as absurd.

“I hear about it for the first time,” Zurabyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

Aftenposten Norwegian newspaper published a WikiLeaks cable regarding the Iranian drug traffic allegedly going though South Caucasus to Russia and Europe.

According to the cable, officials from the U.S. embassy in Baku supposed that “Armenian political and government officials, including former President Tar-Petrosyan, were personally profiting from this trade.”

[link to www.panarmenian.net]

Azerbaijan will not dare act against superpowers’ will, Armenian expert says

February 24, 2011

“I do not believe Azerbaijan will dare resume hostilities, as the international community, represented by Russia, France, NATO, the United States and European Union, have a clear position on it,” Stepan Grigoryan, Head of the Center for Globalization and Regional Cooperation, told journalists Feb. 24, as he commented on a statement by the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Ukraine.

Azerbaijan’s withdrawal from the negotiation process and hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh are unlikely. “Baku will not dare act against the superpowers’ will and start hostilities. I do not think Azerbaijan will make such a step, as it is well aware a blitzkrieg is impossible in this case,” Grigoryan said

Azerbaijani Ambassador to Ukraine Einulla Madatli stated that “Azerbaijan may think over the prospects of its further participation in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process as part of the Paris process. It will be done if Armenia delays or gives a negative answer to the proposals made by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on the basis of Madrid principles.”

[link to news.am]

Death of Azerbaijani envoy to Austria

February 23rd, 2011

The Azerbaijani ambassador to Austria, Fuad Ismayilov, has passed away in Vienna at the age of 42.
His death was the result of cardiac failure, APA reported.

[link to www.news.az]

NATO stands behind recent Karabakh-related threats of Azerbaijan, Russian expert believes

2/24/2011

NATO stands behind recent Karabakh-related threats of Azerbaijan, according to the head of CIS institute.

As the political expert Mikhail Alexandrov stated, double standards are used in Karabakh conflict settlement, with Russia having to maneuver between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“Position of the West on the proven fact of the Armenian genocide in Karabakh is unclear, as well as putting democratic regimes in Armenia and NKR on the same level with authoritative power in Azerbaijan,” the expert notes.

According to Alexandrov, Azeri threats is a way to pressure Armenia, the West being the first to benefit from delays in conflict settlement. “The loosing party is to be the one to make concessions. Azerbaijan, the loosing party, is attempting to force Armenia into concessions. And the West, specifically NATO, are behind this,” Alexandrov stressed.

[link to www.panarmenian.net]

SOCAR President meets with heads of BP and ExxonMobil Companies in London

2/24/2011SOCAR (State oil Company of Azerbaijan) President Rovnag Abdullayev has met with BP President Robert Dudley in the head office of this company.

SOCAR says exploration of Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli, Shahdeniz fields by BP and SOCAR, long-term cooperation on implementation of the construction and exploitation of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, including works in Shafag-Asiman fields were discussed at the meeting, which BP-Azerbaijan President Rashid Javanshir attended.

[link to en.apa.az]

Athens Armenians hold mass rally against Azeri aggression policy

February 26, 2011

A mass rally in protest of Baku’s aggression policy was held in front of Azerbaijani Embassy in Athens guarded by the police.

The demonstrators distributed information leaflets on massacres of Armenians in Azerbaijan.

Rally participants urged to cease Azeri aggression, stressing that the Armenian nation will continue struggle for restoration of historic justice, Azad Or newspaper reported.

[link to www.panarmenian.net]

Armenian opposition use Facebook, Twitter to promote rally

Fri 25 February 2011

The Armenian opposition is using social media to publicize a rally planned for 1 March, taking their cue from protesters in the Arab world.
Supporters of the Armenian National Congress opposition bloc have opened a Facebook page, Armenian Revolution of Reform: 1 March 2011, and the #1mar hashtag on Twitter to spread the word about the rally.

“The current situation is unprecedented, as the discontent with the ruling regime is growing among various strata of the population,” Levon Zurabyan, Armenian National Congress coordinator, told reporters on 25 February.

He said the opposition would not allow a repeat of the tragedy of 1 March 2008, when 10 people were killed and scores injured as security forces dispersed a rally to protest at fraud in the presidential elections.

“Any act of violence will be rebuffed 10 times over,” Levon Zurabyan said on Friday.

[link to www.news.az]

Azerbaijani Official Urges Georgia To Curb Armenian Access To Black Sea

February 27, 2011

YEREVAN -- Azerbaijani Ambassador to Georgia Namig Aliyev has urged the Georgian government to restrict Armenia's economic access to the Black Sea coast and stop tens of thousands of Armenians from traveling there every year, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.

Aliyev claimed the Armenian presence in Georgia's Black Sea region of Ajara is part of a long-term plan to annex the area.

"[The Black Sea resorts of] Kobuleti, Batumi, and other regions in Ajara are being 'Armenianized,' Armenians are being resettled there," Aliyev claimed. "This is a great threat. Taking into account the fact that in 2009-10 hundreds of Ajaran families moved from Ajara to other regions of Georgia as migrants, we'll see where these processes will lead the Georgians."

The diplomat added that the use of the Georgian Black Sea ports of Batumi and Poti by Armenian exporters and importers also poses a grave threat to Georgia's territorial integrity.

"I can understand it when a state has no access to the sea and wants to establish friendship, economic, commercial, and transport relations with other states, in order to have access to the sea," he said. "But in the case of Armenia...these are territorial claims."

Aliyev said Armenia would seek to eventually "occupy these territories both militarily and through migration." He added that "Azerbaijanis and Georgians should unite to prevent this policy. Otherwise, we will not be able to achieve anything."

[link to www.rferl.org]

Azerbaijan threatens to down Armenian flights

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

BAKU (AFP)
Azerbaijan on Wednesday threatened to shoot down civilian planes flying to disputed Nagorny Karabakh if the separatist Armenian authorities who control the region reopen an airport there.

Azerbaijan considers Karabakh to be occupied by the Armenians, and Baku's state aviation agency said it has told the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) that the region's airspace was closed and any flights would be unauthorized.

"According to the law on aviation, it is even possible to physically destroy airplanes which are heading there," said Arif Mammadov, the director of Azerbaijan's Civil Aviation Administration, in comments to local media.

"We asked the ICAO to notify the opposing side in order to prevent incidents," he said.

The separatist Karabakh authorities have been rebuilding the airport near their capital Stepanakert and plan to restart commercial flights to Yerevan in May.

[link to www.alarabiya.net]

This place is going to EXPLODE...

nice work, thank you

We are 5 months into WW3....events still to escalate.

Tensions Growing Between Azerbaijan and Iran?

March 14, 2011

An increasing number of protests in Azerbaijan in recent months has Baku viewing Iran as a possible instigator of unrest. Although Iran has some levers in Azerbaijan, such as a large Shiite population, several factors — including Russia’s potential involvement — will lead Tehran to proceed with caution in its attempts to destabilize the Azerbaijani government.

As unrest continues brewing in the Middle East, STRATFOR has noted that Iran has been able to exploit or perhaps even instigate the instability in the region to its benefit, particularly in the Persian Gulf states. Tehran could be pursuing a similar strategy in a country contiguous with Iran: Azerbaijan.

Modern-day relations between Iran and Azerbaijan are mixed. Their economic relationship is solid; trade between them is roughly $500 million per year, and Iran is one of Azerbaijan’s main importers of natural gas . However, political relations have become more contentious; Iran has politically and financially supported the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (AIP), a pro-Iranian and religious Shiite opposition party officially banned by Baku.

Tehran, meanwhile, is concerned about Baku’s use of its links to certain segments of Iran’s ethnic Azerbaijani population to sow discord within Iran and serve as a launching point for the West into Iran. Tehran most recently accused Baku of such actions in the Green movement’s failed attempt at revolution in 2009. Geopolitically, the countries’ strategic interests often clash. Iran has strong ties with Armenia (Azerbaijan’s foe), while Azerbaijan has good relations with the West, and political and military ties to Israel — both of which are uncomfortable for Tehran. These factors have created tense relations, though not outright hostile, which naturally rise and fall with shifting global issues.

Tensions increased again recently as a group called “11 March - Great People’s Day” has used the social network website Facebook to organize anti-government rallies across Azerbaijan beginning on March 11 (exactly one month after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak decided to step down). Reportedly, all of the organizers of the group live abroad except for one of the founders: Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a 29-year-old former parliamentary candidate. Baku has worked aggressively to stymie these protests; the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry has said that such protests have not been approved by executive authorities and would be “resolutely thwarted.” Hajiyev was arrested March 4 in Ganja, and several other youth activists tied to the Facebook group have been detained in recent days.

[link to www.eurasianet.org]

Azerbaijan starts production of Israeli drones

Thu 10 March 2011

Production of drones has started at Azad Systems, a joint venture between Azerbaijan's Defence Industry Ministry and Israeli manufacturer Aeronautics.

Azad Systems, which was formally opened by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev last week, is producing the Orbiter 2M and Aerostar unmanned aircraft, Fineco/ABC reported.

[link to news.az]

Iran suspected in Azerbaijan unrest

BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 16 (UPI) -- Amid allegations Tehran is exploiting Arab unrest to destabilize its Persian Gulf rivals and Israel claims it has seized Iranian arms bound for Hamas, Iran is also suspected of instigating trouble in neighboring Azerbaijan, a key source of oil for the West.

Following a growing number of protest demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital on the Caspian Sea, the government of President Ilham Aliyev has openly accused Tehran of interfering in its domestic affairs.

Aliyev's regime has good relations with the West and growing political, military and intelligence links with Israel.

[link to www.upi.com]

Israeli embassy reopens again in Baku

21 February 2011

The Israeli embassy in Baku is operating as normal, according to Ambassador Mikhael Lavon-Lotem, after it had to close down twice last week.
"We had technical problems with telephone communications which is why it was impossible to contact the embassy. Now these technical reasons have been sorted out," the Israeli embassy told 1news.az.

The embassy closed on 14 February and again on the 18th.

The same day Israel also closed its embassies in Turkey and Georgia.

[link to news.az]

The context for 9/11, and everything that followed from it, has been in front of us from the start. Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, “American Primacy and its Geo-strategic Imperatives,” (Basic Books, 1997) laid out the arguments for US global hegemony, although he later seemed stunned by US actions in the Middle East. He argued that Eurasia, a huge area stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok, is the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played. The United States, a non-Eurasian player, had (prior to its occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq) its power deployed on three peripheries of the Eurasian continent, a dominant position that no state could challenge. Professor Brzezinski argued that America’s chief task is to maintain its “global primacy” over this vast area and, “to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitrating role.”

Professor Brzezinski devoted particular attention to the Eurasian Balkans, which include nine countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Afghanistan. All of these countries, with the exception of Afghanistan, form part of the Caspian Sea Basin. Why are these countries important? According to Professor Brzezinski, “the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.” He continues, “Access to that resource and sharing in its potential wealth represent objectives that stir national ambitions, motivate corporate interest, rekindle historical claims, revive imperial aspirations and fuel international rivalries.”

[link to my.firedoglake.com]

Baku views Karabakh war as a remedy against revolution?

March 21st 2011

In the near future, resumption of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan can be expected, Azerbaijani newspaper Yeni Musavat said, citing reliable sources.

According to Yeni Musavat, despite the decision to continue talks, taken at March 5 Armenia-Russia-Azerbaijan presidential meeting in Sochi, official Baku is “determined to resort to localized military actions.” The risky step is triggered by growing strain in Azerbaijan’s internal policy.

The Azeri authorities are signaling to the West that in case the Arab revolutionary scenarios are repeated in Azerbaijan, the official Baku will violate the regional stability, thus undermining the West’s interests.

The Kremiln, in turn, supposes a new war in Karabakh to be the only way to avoid revolutions in Armenia and Azerbaijan, which may undermine Russia’s interest in the region. After the color revolution in Georgia, Moscow realized that any change of power in post-Soviet space is fraught with negative consequences for Russia.

According to the article published by Caucasus Online, Azerbaijani expert Azad Isazade doesn’t rule out that “Russia may have a scenario of military operations envisaging weakening of both sides for further deployment of peacekeepers in the region.”

[link to www.panarmenian.net]

EXCELLENT NEWS SOURCING COLLECTION HERE

I CONCUR ON IT BEING A TRIGGERPOINT FOR ESCALATION

NO GOOD COMES OF THESE DISPUTED AIRSPACES. EVER.

KEEP US POSTED HERE IRISH!

BUMP BACK TO THE TOP

Schnornagolem OP,you've been busy.

ww3 startet 9 11 2001 you idiot

[link to news.az]

Azerbaijan’s natural resources plundered by Armenians

'Armenia demonstrates hostile attitude not only towards Azerbaijani forests, but also to all its natural resources.

Sat 02 April 2011

[link to www.panorama.am]

President of Armenia answers Azerbaijan’s threats

foreign ministry’s and other offices’ statement that they will shoot down the civil aircrafts which will land in the airport of Stepanakert

Sunday, April 03

geez.. shit silently brewing under the surface

hmmm, interesting...

Georgia is the wild card... that hasn't been played... yet.

The One who holds that wild card is not who you might think.




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Misha Olympics 2008










Right before the rose revolution, a certain world leader
gave a symbolic birthday gift to President Shevardnadze...
a gift symbolizing his impending retirement.







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Last Edited by AlasBabylon on 04/03/2011 12:29 PM

Who instigated the 2008 Ossetia War?

Georgia or Russia?

The result of the Georgian War was Russia getting a sizeable force throught the Caucasus Mountain tunnel, their only way south for tanks and infantry. Russia now has control of that tunnel...

Roki Tunnel

The tunnel, completed by the Soviet authorities in 1985, is one of only a handful of routes that cross the North Caucasus Range. It is at about 2,000 meters altitude and its length is 3,660 meters, and near the Roki Pass at about 3,000 meters altitude, which can only be used in summer.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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Who instigated the 2008 Ossetia War?
Georgia or Russia?

The result of the Georgian War was Russia getting a sizeable force throught the Caucasus Mountain tunnel, their only way south for tanks and infantry. Russia now has control of that tunnel...

Roki Tunnel

The tunnel, completed by the Soviet authorities in 1985, is one of only a handful of routes that cross the North Caucasus Range. It is at about 2,000 meters altitude and its length is 3,660 meters, and near the Roki Pass at about 3,000 meters altitude, which can only be used in summer.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]


The Georgian government - backed by the United States - has long called for the South Ossetian side of the tunnel to be placed under the control of international monitors, rather than by the South Ossetian secessionists and its Russian forces

didnt that happen already?

and the major players did almost nothing

armenia ended up on top

My point is... it's not "either or"

Misha could have destroyed that tunnel... but he didn't.







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Last Edited by AlasBabylon on 04/03/2011 12:59 PM

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Russia, Georgia and Armenia
are Orthodox Christian.

Their religion means nothing
to secular/atheist westerners.

But it is very important
to Orthodox Christians.



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