“In response to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's democratic aspiration for self-determination, Azerbaijan launched a war against Nagorno-Karabakh, not Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh was able to take the war outside its borders, pressuring Azerbaijan into signing the 1994 cease-fire agreement”, he writes.

The representative conveys that it is Nagorno-Karabakh, not Armenia, who now controls some 8 percent of Azerbaijani territory. "Everything else is a buffer zone between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan that helps to maintain a relative peace in the region", he says.

[Ed. note] Unfortunately due to the copyright we cannot publish here comprehensive, as we think, article of  Philip Kennicott called Independent Candidates Court Anger in Azerbaijan Campaign .

However, we are providing a direct link to the Washington Post web page where this article along with a good quality video report are available:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR2005100401542.html

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