JAN. 24 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Azerbaijan has issued an official protest note to Armenia after it emerged that dozens of ethnic Armenians who had fled a civil war in Syria were resettling in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, media reported. An estimated 6,000 ethnic Armenians who had been living mainly in Aleppo have fled to Yerevan.
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(News report from Issue No. 121, published on Jan. 25 2013)
JAN. 18 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Ethnic tension around the Uzbek enclave of Sokh in southern Kyrgyzstan is still running high, media reported. On Jan. 5/6 ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz clashed after an argument over the construction of new electricity pylons. Several people were injured.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Ethnic tension around the Uzbek enclave of Sokh in southern Kyrgyzstan is still running high, media reported. On Jan. 5/6 ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz clashed after an argument over the construction of new electricity pylons. Several people were injured.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Perhaps hinting that a new border dispute is looming, Tajik foreign minister, Hamrohon Zarifi, said he had requested Soviet-era documents from Russia that showed the demarcation of borders with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, media reported. The three countries dispute various borders in the Ferghana Valley.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Perhaps hinting that a new border dispute is looming, Tajik foreign minister, Hamrohon Zarifi, said he had requested Soviet-era documents from Russia that showed the demarcation of borders with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, media reported. The three countries dispute various borders in the Ferghana Valley.
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(News report from Issue No. 120, published on Jan. 18 2013)
JAN. 11 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – The hard facts may be sketchy but a sense of fragility has returned to southern Kyrgyzstan after brief fighting between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz broke out last week.
Ethnic divisions have fractured society in southern Kyrgyzstan for generations. In June 2010 violence broke out in and around Osh, the main city in the south. Around 400 people died in the fighting and thousands of ethnic Uzbeks fled across the nearby border to Uzbekistan.
Since 2010, there have been sporadic reports of flare-ups, but generally the situation has been controlled. Tense but controlled. The reports from Sokh, an enclave within Kyrgyzstan that belongs to Uzbekistan, were different though. According to media reports, clashes broke out after an altercation between Kyrgyz border guards and Uzbek residents of Sokh on Jan. 5 over the construction of new electrical pylons.
Accounts then differ, but the basic premise was that there was some sporadic fighting, shots were fired and hostages were taken on both sides. Some cars and property were also destroyed.
Media organisations estimated that hundreds of people had been involved in the fracas. The exact number is still not clear. What is clear, however, is that ethnic divisions in southern Kyrgyzstan are as dangerous as ever.
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(News report from Issue No. 119, published on Jan. 11 2013)
JAN. 28 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia met in Paris to discuss a solution to their dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. While little substantial progress was made at the one-day meeting, foreign mediators consider getting Azerbaijan and Armenia to sit across a table as positive.
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(News report from Issue No. 122, published on Feb. 25 2013)
NOV. 1 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – In one of his first major policy statements since becoming Georgia’s PM last week, Bidzina Ivanishvili said he would not restore diplomatic ties with Russia until it reversed its recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in the mid-1990s.
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(News report from Issue No. 111, published on Nov. 2 2012)
JUNE 6 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Coinciding with a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the South Caucasus, fighting flared between Azerbaijani forces and Armenian- backed rebels around the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Media reported that nine soldiers from both sides had been killed in shootouts over the past few days.
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(News report from Issue No. 091, published on June 8 2012)
APRIL 27 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Armenia said that Azerbaijani forces shot dead three of its soldiers in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan vowed revenge, triggering one of the most serious stand-offs over Nagorno- Karabakh this year.
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(News report from Issue No. 086, published on May 4 2012)