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Azerbaijan: IDP living conditions improve, but peace deal remains elusive Almost 13 years after the signing of a ceasefire agreement, there are still some 690,000 people internally displaced in Azerbaijan from Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed independent state within the territory of Azerbaijan, and its adjacent districts. There are also an estimated 30,000 mainly Armenian displaced persons in Na-gorno-Karabakh who arrived from other regions of Azerbaijan. People fled their homes as a result of a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh in 1988, which quickly escalated into an armed conflict with an ethnic basis. After the two parties agreed to a ceasefire in 1994, negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia on resolving the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh have been continuing, and although the two parties have come closer to an agreement on some issues, a number of impasses remain. The Azeri government has demonstrated significantly more political will in allocating financial and human resources to address the needs of displaced persons in recent years. IDPs living in the harshest conditions have been resettled to over 10,000 new houses in 45 settlements since 2001. While this initiative has improved the living conditions for some IDPs, the sustainability of their resettlement is questionable since some houses are within close proximity of ongoing hostilities, there are few income-generating activities in the settlement areas, IDPs do not own the houses they are given, which are sometimes of poor quality, the land is not always suitable for agriculture and essential medical and sanitation services are often absent. +++ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
