Dear Mr Sutcliffe I read with interest the article in which you were quoted by the Azerbaijani press about your views on the return of the Azerabaijani refugees from the Nagorno-Karabakh war. “British MP: IDP’s return home should be a… Read More ›
Artsakh
Azerbaijan violates the Geneva convention with TV Exhibition of Armenian soldier
In the 3 weeks since Hakob Injigulyan, the “lost” Armenian soldier, was captured by the Azeris, there seems to be an increasing lack of clarity around this case. This is another example of the on-going opaqueness that happens in the… Read More ›
Armenian Genocide : There should be no Centenary “Commemoration” in 2015.
In 1915 it was the Centenary of the victory of the British Army over Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo which signaled the decline of his power and ultimately his personal exile. Whilst an important event in British history, with… Read More ›
Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Tourism – Susanna Petrosyan
Whether this is the first time you’ve been to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) or you’ve visited many times before and would like someone, living in the country, to help with all of your arrangements then please contact me. I have lived in… Read More ›
The “honour” of being black-listed by Azerbaijan
I always thought that anyone who visited Artsakh without the agreement of the Azerbaijani government was immediately considered to be “persona non grata”. Of course the number of people who they grant permission to is probably very small and confined… Read More ›
Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) : Tourism good-news story flawed by poor journalism
In the UK during the Second World War there was a nation-wide poster campaign called “Careless Words Costs Lives”. This was aimed at everyone in the country requesting them to be vigilant about what they said, and to whom, and… Read More ›
Aghdam: This is no Hiroshima. (Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh)
Before 1991, Aghdam was a major Azerbaijani city nestled within the natural arc shape of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO). It contained around 50,000 people, industry and an airport which also served the people of Nagorno-Karabakh with it being around… Read More ›
Letter to Gordon Henderson Member of UK Parliament 1 July 2013
Dear Mr Henderson I note with interest that on 6 Feb 2012 you proposed an Early Day Motion (2690) regarding the “20th Anniversary of the Khojaly Tragedy” . The events in Khojaly in 1992 are controversial, and this motion only… Read More ›
Azerbaijan’s continuing siege of Stepanakert (Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh)
Whilst it might be considered that the Karabakhi Armenians won the war to defend their right to live independently from Azerbaijan, they are losing some of the main, post-ceasefire, elements of “passive warfare”. Azerbaijan is successfully winning the propaganda war… Read More ›
Artsakh Banking : Basics with no “Bubbles”
Only a few years ago the main trading nations of the world went into a Banking meltdown which threatened to change the face of the global financial infrastructure. After years of frothing and buoyant economies the financial traders in the… Read More ›