A Reset in the Caucasus

People Power in the Caucasus

Insecurity continued to hinder efforts in Iraq and the northern Caucasus.

Regional cooperation is extremely important in building mutual trust in the southern Caucasus.

For example, in the Caucasus there's a site where you find local Neanderthal tools.

Expressing mutual interest in the development of the Europe Caucasus Asia transport corridor for the improvement of the transport infrastructure within the Transport Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia (TRACECA) on the basis of the revival of the historic silk route,

A similar dialogue has been started in the northern Caucasus to address post conflict protection challenges.

The visit to the Russian Federation, including the North Caucasus, has been rescheduled for December 2004.

Currently the programme focuses on the following areas Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

In the Caucasus, the loss of life through terrorism and civil conflict in Chechnya and Ingushetia was appalling.

But the biggest risks posed by unilateral recognition of Kosovo s independence are in the South Caucasus, a region that abuts the tinderbox of today s Middle East. Here, there is a real danger that Russia may recognize breakaway regions in the South Caucasus, and back them more strongly than it does now.

His Government was grateful to UNHCR for the assistance it had provided to internally displaced persons in the northern Caucasus and Chechnya.

Protracted displacement also characterized a great number of IDP situations, particularly those in south eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

Then I have been walking East for 20 years from Eastern Europe to Central Asia through the Caucasus Mountains, Middle East, North Africa, Russia.

Activities will be streamlined and focused on south east Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in particular Central Asia and the Caucasus.

The subprogramme will support projects, especially on gas infrastructure and transportation networks, with particular attention to the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Balkans and Southern Europe.

Among other activities, UNEP is supporting the data collection work and development of environmental indicators for the countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

In Central and Eastern Europe, an assessment mission to the Caucasus examined the specific problems of penal reform in Georgia and project development is under way.

The ECE and ESCAP component of the project focused mainly on Euro Asian transport links, including through Central Asian, Caucasus and Eastern European landlocked developing countries.

Request for the inclusion of an additional item entitled Protracted conflicts in the Black Sea South Caucasus region and their implications for international peace, security and development

His delegation was grateful for the assistance provided by UNHCR in resolving the problem of internally displaced persons in the northern Caucasus region of the Russian Federation.

For most of the past two decades, jihadists in the Caucasus and Central Asia were a major source of concern for the Kremlin. Fear of Talibanization of the Caucasus prompted the Kremlin s recent announcement that Russian Muslims should be protected from extremist propaganda from abroad, and that Russian Muslim education and spiritual life should be controlled in order to direct them away from extremism.

(e) Europe and the NIS In the developing transition countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, the promotion of FDI into the manufacturing sector is important to raise employment.

UNIFEM continued to support Member States in the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) in Africa, the Andean region, the Arab States, the Balkans and the Southern Caucasus.

Among a number of worrying cases, a significant amount of highly enriched uranium was discovered in the Caucasus and it is possible that a larger amount remains unaccounted for.

GMES and its activities currently cover the Caucasus, Central Asia and South Eastern Europe and it is planned to extend the work to Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine in 2005.

Thus, Russia s effort to entrap Georgia and its neighbors in the nets of its new liberal empire is part of a well coordinated attempt to reorient the South Caucasus as a whole towards the anti Western coalition of Russia and Iran. Western countries, and the US in particular, must provide firm backing and support to the South Caucasus to prevent Russia from realizing its destabilizing and dangerous neo imperial dream.

The other lesson is that Turkey and Armenia cannot remain adversaries forever. There must be normalization in our relations in order for the Caucasus to coalesce into a functional region.

Request for the inclusion of an additional item entitled Protracted conflicts in the Black Sea South Caucasus region and their implications for international peace, security and development (A 60 234)

Second, the Organization's lack of attention to the instability in the Black Sea South Caucasus region gave others the wrong signal about its willingness to ensure security and stability everywhere.

We also emphasize the need for a renewed focus on those countries in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus that have recently experienced the steepest rise in the spread of HIV.

Acting on these principles, Turkey is following a proactive foreign policy stretching from the Balkans to the Middle East and the Caucasus. This geography is Turkey s natural historical and cultural hinterland.

ECE has supported the establishment of the Transport Corridor of Europe, the Caucasus and Asia (TRACECA) project for harmonizing trade procedures, which led to the setting up of national working groups.

Mr. Chitaia (Georgia) said that his delegation had joined the other members of the GUAM group in seeking to focus more international attention on the conflicts in the Black Sea South Caucasus region.

And in it, Tolstoy told of a trip that he'd recently made to a very remote area of the Caucasus, where there were only wild barbarians, who had never left this part of Russia.

For many years now, Georgia and Russia have been playing with fire, and war in the Caucasus looked preordained. Each side was waiting for a false move by the other to play its hand.

In the Caucasus, everyone is losing, though some more than others foremost the civilians who have lost their lives or homes. Then comes the Georgian government, which has demonstrated its immaturity, if not irresponsibility.

In conclusion, I would like to reiterate Armenia's view that politically motivated projects that do not involve all States in the region cannot in any way contribute to stability and prosperity in South Caucasus.

This conflict, which has continued for more than 15 years, obviously hampers the democratic development process in the region and negatively affects not only Azerbaijan and Armenia, but also the entire South Caucasus region.

Follow up dialogue on the participation of the European Commission in supporting the new railway connection project in the framework of the development of the Europe Caucasus Asia corridor, promoting integration with trans European railway network

His Government looked forward to seeing an OHCHR representative installed in Moscow as soon as possible, and confirmed its invitation to the High Commissioner to visit the regions of the Russian Federation, including the northern Caucasus.

We in this region can, and I believe should, call for a non aligned Caucasus, free of security blocs and adversarial alliances. After all, security alliances and guarantees only create dividing lines, with their attendant security challenges.

The violence began following an ordinary conflict between two small groups of young people over a taxi. One group consisted of young people from the Northern Caucasus, the other of fans of a Moscow football (soccer) club.

The Afghan Arabs are the most prominent, but there were many others from the Caucasus, Central, South and South East Asia and elsewhere who disappeared either before or soon after the defeat of the Taliban in 2001.

The representative of the Russian Federation expressed his support for the draft CPD, and emphasized the importance of continued efforts by UNICEF in the Northern Caucasus, focusing on education, restoration of schools and psychosocial rehabilitation of children.