Reuters. Palestinians in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza protested on Wednesday (March 26) to demand an end to the war with Israel, chanting “Hamas out.” Northern Gaza has been one of the most devastated areas of Gaza since Israel responded to the Hamas raid on southern Israel in October 2023. Most buildings in…
Moldova’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved the results of the second round of the presidential election and the victory of incumbent President Maia Sandu in it, TASS reports. “Candidate Maia Sandu, nominated by the Party of Action and Solidarity, who received the largest number of votes in the second round (930,139), is declared…
Leo Housakos, Canadian Senator condemned Azerbaijani actions against the people of Artsakh. “Azerbaijan’s attack on the people of Artsakh represents the most recent violation of the Nov. 2020 ceasefire agreement. I am disturbed by Azerbaijan’s renewed aggression, and I call on Canada & the international community to condemn it in absolute terms”, he…
Michael Roth, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Bundestag, the German parliament, has arrived in Armenia. “Raise the flag for young democracy, for peace and territorial integrity,” Roth wrote in this regard on X (former Twitter). The German lawmaker informed that he is in Armenia’s Yerevan and will have meetings…
Baku and Belgrade are set to sign an agreement for additional gas supplies from Azerbaijan to Serbia, Azerbaijani media reports. The announcement was made by Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović Handanović following a meeting with Srbijagas President Dušan Bajatović, the ministry said in a statement. The minister expressed satisfaction with…
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi referred to the regional security. “Regional peace, security and stability is not merely a preference, but a pillar of our national security. Any threat from North, South, East, or West to territorial integrity of our neighbors or redrawing of boundaries is totally unacceptable and a red line…
The second high-level EU-Armenia Political and Security Dialogue took place on Wednesday in Brussels, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry reports. Building upon the inaugural meeting of the dialogue held in Yerevan this January, the meeting confirmed mutual interest of Armenia and the EU to further enhance political dialogue and cooperation in the areas of foreign, security…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan upped his rhetoric against Greece on Saturday, threatening to “come down suddenly one night,” AP reports. Erdogan has previously used that phrase to hint at looming military operations into Syria and Iraq against Kurdish militants that Turkey deems existential threats. He made good on that threat several times. Speaking at…
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Founding Chairman of Rasmussen Global and former NATO Secretary General referred to the latest developments in Lachin Corridor. “Worrying escalation by Azerbaijan. If Baku continues to flout its international commitments and binding court orders from the International Court of Justice, there must be political and economic consequences”, Rasmussen twitted.
We firmly support the territorial integrity of Georgia and do not recognize the de facto leaders of the regions of “South Ossetia” and Abkhazia, nor their representatives, with whom we do not consider it justified to make contact, ”says the vice-president of the parliamentary group of the Forza Italia party and the deputy , responsible…
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, will visit Armenia and Azerbaijan, including the Karabakh region, from 16 to 23 October 2023 with a focus on the human rights situation of people affected by the conflict. The Commissioner will hold meetings with State officials, representatives of international organisations and civil society….
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Bujar Osmani addressed the issue of opening the Lachin Corridor in Twitter. “Following up to my phone conversations from last week, as OSCE Chairman-in- Office I requested my Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk to visit the Lachin area and to report back to me on the current situation on the ground. I…
The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, for the first time publicly spoke about the developments around the Lachin Corridor and again blamed Armenia, the international community, and, as he said, “Armenia’s patrons”. According to Aliyev, the created situation “caused anti-Azerbaijani hysteria not only in Armenia, but also among Armenia’s foreign patrons, who started a slanderous…
Reacting to the news that another Azerbaijani journalist, Teymur Karimov, was arrested on Monday in Baku and now faces criminal charges, Natalia Nozadze, Amnesty International’s South Caucasus Researcher, said: “The arrest of Teymur Karimov follows a disturbing pattern of spurious charges being brought against journalists and other critical voices in Azerbaijan. What we are…
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev criticized comments made by French president Emmanuel Macron during an interview with the channel France 2. According to Aliyev, the French government has erased Paris’s history of having a friendly and balanced attitude toward Baku. The French Foreign ministry was asked what is their reaction? “These comments in no way…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday (August 24) held a meeting with top military officials ‘on countering the enemy forces that invaded the territory of the Kursk Region and the measures taken to destroy them,’ the Kremlin press-service said, Reuters reports. In a video released by the Kremlin, Putin was seen receiving reports from…
Human rights organization, Amnesty International, said Donald Trump’s proposal to move Palestinians from Gaza was “inflammatory, outrageous and shameful” and amounted to a “flagrant violation of international law.” “Any plan to forcibly deport Palestinians outside the occupied territory against their will is a war crime,” Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard told Reuters news…
During the NATO-Georgia commission meeting in Brussels, Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, discussed the significance of NATO sharing the recent strategies of the European Union, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. Shalva Papuashvili spoke about Georgia’s ability to ensure security in a highly complex security environment while concurrently contributing to international security, including providing…
Toivo Klaar, EU special representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, arrived in Baku. “Glad to be back in Azerbaijan. Interesting meetings today and looking forward to good discussions tomorrow,” Klaar wrote on his Twitter.
Israeli strikes on Monday killed more than 270 Lebanese in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as the Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate their homes ahead of a widening air campaign against Hezbollah, AP reports. Thousands of Lebanese fled the south, and the main highway out of…
Edmon Marukyan, Armenia’s Ambassador-at-Large referred to the refusal by Baku to participate in quadrilateral format meeting in Brussels on December 7. “Azerbaijan agreed in Prague to continue the meetings in a quadrilateral format. It’s logical that the format of the meeting and composition of participants must be the same. Therefore we hope that the…
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan discussed regional developments with his Maltese counterpart. “During a phone call with Foreign Minister of Malta Ian Borg discussed developments in region since my official visit to Malta in March. Spoke about worsening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh due to blockade of Lachin Corridor and its consequences. Effective use of…
US Vice President Harris on Sunday expressed relief that former President Trump was safe following what the FBI said appeared to be a new assassination attempt on him in Florida, The Hill reports. “I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I am…
“Azerbaijan took control over Saribaba in August but only in November claimed about new mines there. Why? Because in September they invaded Jermuk area, Armenia’s sovereign territory, got access to mines, transferred to Saribaba to falsely accuse Armenia for using Lachin corridor to transfer ammunitions,” Ambassador-at-Large of Armenia Edmon Marukyan tweeted.
Illegal blockade of Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan continues for 25 days. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this at the start of the Government session. “That operation, which caused a humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, has caused a wide international response of calls to unblock the corridor. Despite this, Azerbaijan is not taking any step to…
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a congratulatory message to caretaker Prime Minister of the Republic of Lebanon Najib Mikati on the occasion of the national holiday, the 80th anniversary of Independence. The message reads as follows, “I convey to you my warm congratulations and sincere wishes on the occasion of the national holiday of…
Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili did not accept the invitation of Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk to visit the city of Bucha near Kiev. He announced this on Facebook, RBC reports. Papuashvili considered the invitation inappropriate due to accusations from the Ukrainian authorities against Tbilisi. “The support and partnership…
The command of the peacekeeping troops of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation informed today about the violation of the ceasefire in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. “One violation of the cease-fire regime by the Azerbaijani armed forces was recorded in Martakert region, there were no casualties or injuries. The command of the…
Yaşar Güler and Zakir Hasanov, the heads of the defense agencies of Turkey and Azerbaijan, met in Ankara. Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense informed that the prospects of military cooperation between Baku and Ankara and regional security were discussed during the meeting. There was also a reference to the prospects of development of cooperation between…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is returning to Baku from Russia after an Azerbaijani airliner crashed in Kazakhstan. He had arrived there to attend an informal meeting of CIS leaders. According to preliminary data, there were 37 people from Azerbaijan, 6 from Kazakhstan, 3 from Kyrgyzstan and 16 from Russia on board the plane.
