Military academy
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
9 h 00 - 13 00
Reception from 8 h 30
Lecture theatre of Bourcet
Free admission on production of an identification document and subject to a pre-inscription recorded on the site www.aceds.fr rubric "events" (link "reserve"), and according to the available places.
For any supplementary information contact: contact@aceds.fr AZERBAIDJAN AZERBAIDJAN, a strategical, energy and cultural crossroad with a quick growth and a long-term plan of action In France, we know generally badly the young Republic of Azerba djan even if we know that at the end of the XIXth century the oil was exploited there before even Texas, Baku becoming then the first worldwide producer of oil.
The specificity of Azerba djan is since too often eclipsed by the Caucasian syndrome which our specialists want each other exacerbating, inheritance of tsarist policies then Soviet. By interest, "Russia" saw there during the two centuries of occupation only a territory of a larger group, the Transcaucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerba djan). Alexander Dumas, during his stories of trips in Russia and in the Caucasus (1858/1859), had noted this paradox the Caucasus does not exist, I know, I went there .
Azerba djan is a very old country of culture, a zone of exchange in the "walk of civilisations Scythian, m de a crossroad, perse, Greek, Arab, Slavonic, Turkish, European, Mongolian, on the roads of silk and now of energy.
Historical Azerba djan corresponds to a region of Western Asia including the current Azerbaijani Republic and the northwest provinces of Iran even today populated with az ris but the young Republic of Azerba djan, born on the debris of the communist block on August 30th, 1991, is in fact only the heiress of an ephemeral independent democratic republic (on 1918, on 1920), but modern and very Western, which did not hesitate, for example, to give voting right to the women from its proclamation.
First five years of independence, from 1991 till 1995, were terrible, they knew civil war, military defeats, occupation of territories and several tries of State blow. nondenominational and very homogeneous culturally, in Muslim tradition strongly impregnated with zaraostrisme, nostalgic of centuries of light and philosophers of the XIth andth XIIth century and proud of its inheritance of Safavides, the country stood up, it is today fast-growing because he introduces characteristics to have chosen the way of negotiation, of investment and to be fundamentally managed, homely, tolerant and commercial.
Agricultural triangle was wedged between both Caucasus and Caspian Sea, at the same time Western and oriental, put in the crossroad of civilisations and of commercial axles, Azerba djan appears as a g ostrat gique centre today because it is more than ever inevitable energy "Hub" between the Central Asia and Europe, between Russia and the hot seas. Just after Georgian conflict, it is important to include the evolution of the Republic of Azerba djan because a part of the future of Europe and undoubtedly of the world is played there.
It is the reason for which we had decided to take up an observer mission during presidential elections. Technically it is very interesting to head with the electoral process as well as its applications on the ground. Strong in your French experience, you will indeed be surprised and impression s by the presentation of the election process, by its implementation as by the application of recommendations of OSCE ODIHR and of committee of Venice of the Council of Europe on the last additions and amendments of the franchise act by the Parliament.
We will have pleasure to find you on December 10th, 2008 to make part of our observations which are numerous and rewarding.
Jean-Yves KNIGHT
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