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The EPC meeting on Azerbaijan in Brussels on Tuesday, 5th March, from l to r Dennis Sammut, Gulshan Pashayeva, Denis Daniilidis, Amanda Paul and Philippe Lefort.

Azerbaijan at the crossroads. Unusually frank and open discussion in Brussels on EU-Azerbaijan relations and the way forward.

March 8, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

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 […]

Azerbaijan, European External Action Service, European Union, Nagorno-Karabakh War, OSCE Minsk Group

Change through the ballot box happened in Georgia in October of last year. Can it happen again in the South Caucasus?

Change is in the air in the South Caucasus, and not all of it is planned.

February 21, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

“The South Caucasus is changing in multiple ways. Some of these changes are planned, others are more spontaneous”, said LINKS Director Dennis Sammut when answering questions put to him by the Azerbaijani news portal news.az.

Archive, Caucasus, LINKS at work

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, South caucasus

Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation – The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations”

February 15, 2013 by Editor 0 Comments

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 […]

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Dennis Sammut, European Policy Centre, European Union, Georgia, South caucasus

The first panel of the conference "The OSCE peacemaking experience: What lessons and challenges for the EU" from left to right: James Nixey (Chatham House), Gunnar Wiegan (Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional co-operation and OSCE at the European External Action Service); Andreii Deshchytsia (Special Represnetative of the incoming Ukrainian Chairmanship of the OSCE), Dennis Sammut (Director, LINKS), Padraig Murphy (Special Representative of the Irish Chairmanship of the OSCE) and Dimitriy Danilov, (Head of the European Security Studies Department, Institute for Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences.) Picture courtesy of the European Policy Centre.

“It is time to convene the Minsk Conference”.

December 11, 2012 by Editor 0 Comments

It has been twenty years since the Minsk Group was established within the framework of the OSCE to mediate a resolution of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The group was supposed to prepare the way for the convening of a full conference in Minsk to help bring the conflict to a final resolution. But twenty years […]

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Dennis Sammut, European Security, Minsk Process, OSCE

The Panel on Eurasian security at the caspian Forium in Istanbul on 6 December 2012 (picture courtesy of the Caspian Institute).

LINKS representative addresses the 2012 Caspian Forum in Istanbul with a call to the region’s leaders to put people at the heart of policies.

December 7, 2012 by Editor 0 Comments

The first Caspian Forum, a gathering of politicians, officials, representatives of the business community, and representatives of NGOs and think tanks, focusing on issues related to the wider Caspian Region, was held in Istanbul on Thursday 6 December. LINKS was represented by its Director, Dennis Sammut, who was a speaker on the third panel of the […]

Azerbaijan, Caspian Sea, Dennis Sammut, European Union, Turkey

“For me, the dialogue between the soul and sound is natural.” Azerbaijani Pianist Renara Akhoundova talks to Nicholas Maltby ahead of her next London concert.

November 1, 2012 by Editor 0 Comments

Renara Akhoundova is one of Azarbaijan’s most famous pianists. Having performed two well-received concerts in St. James’s Church, Renara will return to London to perform at Pushkin House in Bloomsbury Square on 24th November. Nicholas Maltby interviewed her for http://www.links-dar.org and asked her about her life and work and why her music is of interest to psychiatrists and […]

Voices

Art, Azerbaijan, Music, Renara Akhoundova

“In the last two years the youth of Azerbaijan have woken up from a long a sleep.” Young photo journalist Mehman Huseynov shares his views and experiences.

October 29, 2012 by Editor 0 Comments

Mehman Huseynov is only 21 years old. Yet he has already won several prizes for his photo journalistic work, including ones given by the US State Department, Freedom House and the World Movement for Democracy. Unfortunately even at this young age he has also had to experience what many other journalists have had to go through in […]

Archive, Caucasus, Voices

Azerbaijan, Mehman Huseynov, World Movement for Democracy, Youth