Officials and experts discuss problems in EU-Azerbaijan relations and the way forward at an unusually frank and open discussion in Brussels. The European Policy Centre in Brussels and the SAM, the Strategic Studies centre under the Presidential Administration in Azerbaijan hosted a round table discussion in Brussels on Tuesday, 4 March 2013 with the theme […]
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Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation – The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations”
The European Policy Centre, a leading Brussels think-tank, has just published a policy brief prepared by LINKS Director, Dennis Sammut. Entitled “Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation – The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations”, the paper looks at shortcomings that need to be addressed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia as they […]
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LINKS suggests practical measures for improving OSCE elections monitoring mechanism.
LINKS used the opportunity provided by the special Human Dimension Meeting of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to propose some practical recommendations for improving the work of the organisation in the field of elections and election monitoring. The meeting was convened by the Irish Chairmanship of the OSCE, together with its Office […]
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Karabakh: The big debate
As part of its on-going efforts to promote the peaceful resolution of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the British non-governmental organisation LINKS in the summer of 2011 conducted interviews with twenty key personalities from Nagorno-Karabakh. Ten interviews were conducted with politicians and civil society activists in Nagorno-Karabakh itself. A further series of ten interviews were conducted in Baku […]
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After Kazan, a defining moment for the OSCE Minsk Process
Italy’s leading international affairs think-tank, Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, in November published a report authored by LINKS Director, Dennis Sammut, entitled “After Kazan: a defining moment for the OSCE Minsk Process.” The report says that the lack of progress in the negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan to resolve the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is a […]
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Addressing the security challenges in the South Caucasus
Events in the Middle East and North Africa risk the EU taking its eye off the ball as regards its eastern neighbourhood, particularly the South Caucasus region, argue Dennis Sammut and Amanda Paul in this Policy Brief published in March 2011 by the European Policy Centre in Brussels. Any kind of destabilisation of the regions […]
Read moreLINKS report outlines views of 46 political parties in Armenia and Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
LINKS has just published a 200 page report summarising the views of forty six political parties in Armenia and in Azerbaijan on the Karabakh conflict and conflict settlement process. The report is based on face to face interviews with leading politicians in both countries conducted by a LINKS team in June and July 2010.The wide […]
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