Hungary and Romania count on natural gas supplies from Azerbaijan, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, wrote on Facebook, as he met with Romania’s Minister of Energy Virgil-Daniel Popescu. “On the one hand, both Romania and Hungary count on gas from Azerbaijan and on the other hand, are expecting to start gas…
The Wall Street Journal: Yaroslav Trofimov – Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for the interview with The Wall Street Journal. I will start with the most difficult questions. Recently, we witnessed dramatic events in Nagorno-Karabakh. Do you have concerns that a full-scale war could spread to the territory of sovereign Armenia, and in your opinion,…
The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni with Ukrainian grain, which left the port of Odessa on Monday morning, late on Thursday reached Istanbul, where it will be inspected, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. “The Razoni dry cargo ship, laden with corn, reached the Bosporus Strait from the Black Sea side. It anchored at the designated…
Edmon Marukyan, Armenia’s Ambassador-at-Large presented the situation in the border area of Kornidzor on his Twitter. “Today the representatives of diplomatic corps and international organizations accredited in Armenia visited the humanitarian convoy in the Kornidzor sector, where humanitarian convoy of lorries loaded with aid is stuck at the entrance to the Lachin Corridor since…
OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid congratulates President Ilham Aliyev on his re-election in Azerbaijan, expressing hopes for continued collaboration. Schmid anticipates meeting Aliyev at the Munich Security Conference to discuss further partnership opportunities aimed at addressing security challenges and promoting peace in the OSCE region, bnn reports. In a gesture of diplomatic goodwill,…
Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze claimed on Thursday that European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi mentioned the recent attack on Slovakia’s Robert Fico in an attempt to persuade him to drop the contentious “Russian law”, Euronews reports. As tensions over the so-called “Russian law” continue to brew in Tbilisi, the EU’s enlargement commissioner…
The Lachin corridor linking Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh, will have been blocked for three months on 12 March. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Azerbaijani authorities and Russian peacekeepers to allow reporters freedom of movement so that they can cover this blockade and its serious humanitarian impact. Nagorno-Karabakh is turning into a news and…
Nasser Kanaani, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, referred to the 3+3 format and the event held in Tehran. “While the United States and some of its allies are intensifying war-mongering, instability and insecurity in the region with full support Israel, Tehran is hosting the second meeting of the 3+3 regional mechanism under the title “The…
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin and Azerbaijani Ambassador to Moscow Rakhman Mustafayev discussed the air crash near Aktau and stressed that it is necessary to complete the official probe and announce its results, the Russian foreign ministry said, TASS reports. “The sides discussed the topic of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash near the…
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is the first foreign leader to congratulate Republican Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election, calling him “president-elect”. “Congratulations to the President-Elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump,” he stated on X, and attached a photo of himself and Trump.
Reuters. Thai Army said they conducted a ‘tank-fired operation’ to destroy a compound located on the Cambodian side of the border on Tuesday (December 9). The target, located in Sra Ngue, Banteay Meanchey Province in Cambodia, is opposite the Ban Ta Phraya border trade facilitation point in Ta Phraya District, Sa Kaeo Province in…
The French ambassador to the OSCE stated that on the instructions of President Emmanuel Macron, France called on the OSCE to achieve the immediate reopening of the Lachin Corridor. “We emphasize the need for urgent measures aimed at meeting the needs of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh,” said the microblog of X (former Twitter) of the…
Britain and France will this week co-host talks aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, including discussions on what President Emmanuel Macron described as a possible strictly defensive naval mission, Reuters reports. The talks are intended to bring together Britain, France and other countries willing to join a peaceful multinational…
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent congratulatory messages to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. The message addressed to the Supreme Leader of the…
A group of unidentified people opened fire on the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) election liaison office in Istanbul’s Bahçelievler Kocasinan during the night, Turkish media reports. While no one was injured in the incident, a large number of police teams were dispatched to the site upon notice. Police teams arrived…
Donald Trump has presented a new, shorter deadline for Russia to agree to a ceasefire over the war in Ukraine of “ten or 12 days” from Monday, BBC reports. The US president said there was “no reason” in waiting any longer as no progress towards peace had been made. Two weeks ago, Trump…
Six children were killed in strikes on the Iranian capital of Tehran last night, the city’s emergency management department said in a statement. “Six children under the age of ten were killed in the bombing of Tehran last night,” the statement reads. Meanwhile, the Mehr news agency reported that a residential building in…
During the weekly briefing, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, also referred to the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and the mediation of the West. “We saw how the EU amended the statement published by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on December 17 about the accession of a…
Iran has decided to revoke the accreditation of several International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors who inspected uranium enrichment facilities and has informed the organization about this, agency head Rafael Grossi said on September 16. According to him, Tehran’s decision limits the IAEA’s ability to conduct inspections in the country, since about a third…
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…
Certainly, the EU observation mission was informed about the provocation that happened yesterday and the fire fired by the Azerbaijani side in the direction of the servicemen and positions of the Armenian Armed Forces with various weapons, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated during the Parliament-Government question-and-answer session. “Today, the EU press service has already…
Georgia has appointed a new extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Armenia, the press service of the Georgian Government. Former rector of the Tbilisi State University Giorgi Sharvashidze was appointed Georgia’s new ambassador to Armenia. Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili has already met with the diplomat and congratulated him on his appointment, wishing him success in…
The deputy defence ministers of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will meet in Istanbul on Friday to discuss a deal that allows the exports of Ukrainian grains on the Black Sea, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Wednesday (May 3), Reuters reports. “During the meeting, some issues starting with the grain initiative will be…
Reuters. U.S. President Donald Trump once again exhorted Iran to make a deal by his Tuesday (April 7) deadline, saying a “whole civilization will die tonight” if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen,…
Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia’s hopes of becoming members of the European Union gained momentum this week, with the bloc’s European affairs ministers discussing their membership options at a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, DW reports. Last year, four months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU unanimously agreed to grant Ukraine and neighboring Moldova EU candidacy…
The armed forces of Ukraine struck with six ATACMS ballistic missiles at the Bryansk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Russian air defense systems shot down five missiles, one was damaged. Its fragments fell on the technical territory of a military facility in the Bryansk region, which caused a fire, which was…
Iran vowed on Friday to avenge Israel’s killing of senior commanders and other officers of its elite Quds Force, at a public funeral held for the dead men, elevating fears of open war but leaving unsaid how it would retaliate or when, The New Times reports. U.S. officials in Washington and the Middle East…
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Margareta Cederfelt and Roberto Montella were received by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in Baku, discussing the role of the OSCE and the PA in promoting security, dialogue and cooperation, as well as supporting the ongoing peace process in the South Caucasus, the OSCE PA twitted. Aliyev reported on the…
Britain said on Saturday it was reestablishing diplomatic relations with Syria after the country’s years-long civil war, as foreign minister David Lammy visited its capital Damascus, pledging 94.5 million pounds ($129 million) in support, Reuters reports. “There is renewed hope for the Syrian people,” Lammy said in a statement. “It is in our interests…
The French government led by Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survived two no-confidence votes on Friday after deputies in the National Assembly rejected the motions. The motions, filed separately on Tuesday by left-wing parliamentary groups including La France Insoumise, the Democratic and Republican Left group (GDR) and the Ecologists, as well as by the far-right…
