According to a statement released by the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Upper Paleolithic humans processed at least 43 species of plants in a cave in southern Armenia between 40,000 and 25,000 years ago, Archaeology reports. Andrew Kandel of the University of Tübingen said that an international team of researchers extracted plant…
NATO will soon supply Ukraine with hundreds of pieces of equipment to combat unmanned aerial vehicles. As NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, speaking at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, these are hundreds of active jamming stations. Earlier, Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said that the…
Turkey will create an international hub from which Russian gas can be supplied to Europe, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday, TASS reports. Erdogan was speaking in parliament at a meeting of the faction of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headed by him. “In Europe they are now dealing with the…
47 PACE deputies issued a written statement condemning the Azerbaijani aggression against the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, calling on Azerbaijan to immediately withdraw its troops from the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia and release all prisoners of war (POWs). Ruben Rubinyan, head of Armenia’s National Assembly (Parliament) delegation to the…
Does Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan consider meeting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu? A question was asked to the Armenian Foreign Minister during the press conference with Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huifeldt. At the press conference following the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Turkic States, Cavusoglu expressed his willingness to…
Armenian Prime Minister took Twitter to refer to the manipulations by Turkey and Azerbaijan on the term “corridor”. “Can anyone find any mention of a “corridor” referring to the territory of Armenia in the November 9 Trilateral statement? Of course no! Is there any mention of a “corridor” in the November 9 Trilateral statement?…
Seyed Abbas Mousavi, Ambassador of IRAN to Azerbaijan referred to the latest drills by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps near the Azerbaijani border. “The clear message of the drills by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the neighboring countries is peace, friendship and the consolidation of stable security and for the enemies, the declaration of…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands has published the answers of Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra to the written questions of one of the deputies, in which an attempt is still made to avoid pointing out Azerbaijan as an aggressor state under the guise of promoting peace, but a number of important points are…
The EU will send 40 monitoring experts to the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Vice President of the European Commission, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell informed this. “The EU is fully committed to contribute to sustainable peace in the South Caucasus. We are setting up a monitoring capacity along…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has launched a large-scale military drill in the northwestern region of Aras along the borders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Iran International reports. The IRGC on Monday kicked off its three-day military exercise — codenamed “IRGC Ground Force’s Might” — in areas striding the northern sectors of East Azarbaijan and Ardabil provinces….
Ukrainian and Turkish foreign ministers in a phone call on Saturday discussed the latest developments about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to Turkish diplomatic sources. Dmytro Kuleba also conveyed condolences to Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu over a blast at a coal mine in Turkey’s northern Bartin province that killed at least 40 miners, according to Turkish diplomatic…
Yerevan proposed to Baku to hold a committee session on border delimitation and border security issues in Brussels. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote about it on Twitter. “Armenia has proposed to Azerbaijan to hold a meeting of Commissions on delimitation and border with security on 31 October in Brussels,” Pashinyan wrote in his microblog.
On October 14, the regular session of the State Council for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of the Occupied Territories of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) was held under the chairmanship of Artsakh Republic State Minister Artak Beglaryan. “In a short period of time, the Council was able to effectively implement some of the…
The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, spoke with the leaders of the CIS countries about work and relations between the countries. The President said that the CIS partners are concerned about the development of relations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and he informs them in detail about the situation, but this does…
Turkey’s parliament on Thursday approved a tough pre-election law that could see reporters and social media users jailed for up to three years for spreading “fake news,” Agence France-Presse reported. The new rules cement the government’s already-firm grip on the media eight months before a general election that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan enters trailing in…
Lawmakers in Iraq have elected Kurdish politician Abdul Latif Rashid as the country’s new president, paving the way for the formation of a new government and ending a year of deadlock. He replaces fellow Iraqi Kurd Barham Saleh as head of state after the two-round vote in parliament on Thursday, winning more than 160…
US State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs issued a statement on the latest video of violence against Armenian POWs. “Deeply disturbed by new reports of violence against POWs during Sept 12-14 fighting. Full and impartial investigation must hold those responsible to account. Oct 4 return by Baku of 17 Armenian POWs was…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia could increase the capacity of its gas exports to Turkey and eventually turn into a hub for gas supplies to Europe. Moscow is ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via a link of the Germany-bound Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea. Putin said…
On October 12, 2022, the Human Rights Defender Ms. Kristinne Grigoryan gave a speech during the 83rd Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, during the online consideration of the 7th periodic report of Armenia….
Power supply to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has been restored, a member of the local military-civilian administration, leader of the movement We are together with Russia, Vladimir Rogov, said on Wednesday, TASS reports. “Normal power supply to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has been restored. Stand-by diesel generators had to be used for less…
Finland has secured the support of its NATO partners in case of a direct threat even before actually joining the alliance, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Wednesday, TASS reports. “Being in the ‘NATO waiting room’, we have received assurances of support from many major players: the US, the UK, key European countries,” Haavisto…
India and the UAE are exploring the creation of a mechanism for carrying out bilateral trade in national currencies, a statement from the Indian Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday. Piyush Goyal, India’s minister of commerce and trade, hopes that the discussions on “mutually beneficial” areas like food security and bilateral trade in national currencies…
The Council of Europe and the European Union issued a joint statement. “We call on Armenia and Azerbaijan to accede to Protocol 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights – banning the use of the death penalty in all circumstances -without delay” the joint Tweet said.
Germany will deliver the first of four IRIS-T SLM air defence systems to Ukraine within days, German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Monday, Reuters reports. “The renewed missile fire on Kyiv and the many other cities show how important it is to supply Ukraine with air defence systems quickly,” Lambrecht said in a statement….
Can the EU observation mission prevent further actions of Azerbaijan? In the NA briefing, this question was asked to ruling ‘Civil Contract’ faction deputies. “Yes, Azerbaijan should leave this territory, because the territorial integrity of Armenia is not subject to negotiation. That mission, in our opinion, will contribute to stabilization and will be an additional…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria has called on Russia to stop launching missile attacks on the objects of Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine. Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian President, responded to the call. “Vienna hardly has the right to call for an end to attacks on Ukraine, it did not…
Russia is firm about its righteousness and feasibility of steps taken in regard to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR respectively) as well the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday, TASS reports. “We are absolutely sure in the rightful cause and the steps that we take,”…
I welcome the agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan on respecting the national borders with the support of the European Union. The member of the German Bundestag, the president of the German-Armenian Forum, Till Mansmann, stated this. “The agreement inspires hope that the tension in the South Caucasus region, which was caused by Azerbaijan’s attack on…
“Greece will not leave any challenge unanswered,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, expressing the hope that the “unacceptable rhetoric” from Turkey will cease, ekathimerini.com reports. Speaking after the end of the informal EU summit in Prague, Mitsotakis said: “I hope that this unacceptable rhetoric of questioning our country’s sovereignty over the islands of…
Lithuanian MFA referred to the initiative on the establishment of EU monitoring mission at Armenia-Azerbaijan border. “The idea to establish EU monitoring mission at Armenia-Azerbaijan border comes to life! It was first voiced by EU-mandated trio of Austria, Lithuania, Romania Foreign Ministers during their visit to South Caucasus last June. If durable, it will…
