Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan (Azeri community: Azərbaycan) or officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azeri community: Azərbaycan Respublikası Azerbaijan Respolecassi) is one of six countries, a Turkish independent in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the crossroads between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, and is bordered by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north and Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west and Iran to the south. Limits the Nakhichevan enclave of Armenia in the north and east, Iran to the south and west, while limiting short-Turkey borders in the north-west. Surrounded Alusaúd Karki Yukhary Oskabara and Brochdarle and Sofulu Armenia and controlled by war since the Nagorno-Karabakh. The region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian-majority in the south-west of Azerbaijan declared itself independent from Azerbaijan in 1991, but this independence has not been diplomatically recognized by any state is still considered part of Azerbaijan occupied by the rule of law by Armenian forces. Azerbaijan has diplomatic relations with 158 countries so far and holds membership 38 Dolah.thml Organization observer status in the Non-Aligned Movement and the World Trade Organization and a reporter at the International Telecommunication Union. There are communities of Azerbaijan in 42 countries and there are dozens of centers of ethnic minorities inside Azerbaijan, including (cultural community German "Carl House" and cultural center of Slavic and Azerbaijani society Israeli and Kurdish Cultural Centre and the Association of Talysh International Center Allezgina national "beaver" and Azerbaijani society Tatar community Crimean Tatars etc ...). On May 9, 2006 Azerbaijan was elected to membership of the Human Rights Council, newly created by the General Assembly of the United Nations. The period began mandate of the Council on June 19, 2006 Azerbaijan state with a majority of the Turkish ethnic and religious Shiite. State officially secular and unitary republic with cultural heritage and historic Old. Azerbaijan was the first attempt to establish a democratic republic and secularism in the Muslim world. Azerbaijan is one of the founding members of GUAM and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in September / September 1993 there is a special envoy of the European Commission in the country, which is also a member of the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Council of Europe and the Partnership for peace for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ......