AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT ARRIVES IN US
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
April 26 2006
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has arrived in the United States
on a trip whose agenda will be topped by Iran, energy supplies, and
Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed part of Azerbaijani territory controlled
since the early 1990s by its majority ethnic-Armenian population.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch calls on U.S. President George W.
Bush to press for reforms in Azerbaijan when he meets with Alikyev
on April 28.
The Azeri president's office says the two leaders will discuss
"problems related to democratic developments," as well as security
in the Caucasus and a range of other topics.