The negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov ended in Almaty, the media reports. The meeting lasted more than four hours.
The US administration claims the mechanism of the OSCE Minsk Group no longer works, and Washington deals with the peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan only in the direct interaction format with Yerevan and Baku. “I believe we have reached the point where we can put an end to that mandate through consensus: it…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, Putin’s aide Yury Ushakov said, TASS reports. According to Ushakov, Moscow considers the summit in Astana as an “opportunity to organize bilateral contacts with the country leaders who will attend it.” That is…
An Azerbaijani court extended the pre-trial detention of Ruben Vardanyan, the former State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, for another four months. Aurora Humanitarian Initiative co-founder and former State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan was arrested by Azerbaijani authorities on September 27, 2023 while en-route to Armenia together with tens of thousands of others amid the…
Before the assassination, Boris Nemtsov was monitored by an FSB officer associated with a secret assassination squad operating under the structure. This is evidenced by the results joint journalistic investigation The Insider, Bellingcat and BBC. The data showed that Nemtsov was under surveillance for about a year, the agent “accompanied” him on at least 13…
Tesla boss Elon Musk has had a record-breaking pay package that could be worth nearly $1tn approved by shareholders. The unprecedented deal was approved by 75% of votes and drew huge applause from the audience at the firm’s annual general meeting on Thursday. Musk, who is already the world’s richest man, must drastically…
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili says that state borders should be tightly controlled given the possible new wave of migrants from Russia, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. “Monitoring closely the events unfolding in Russia. Our border has to be tightly controlled in view of possible new waves of migration,” President tweeted. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a bombastic…
Slovenia is allocating €120,000 to Armenia through the ICRC to support the forcibly displaced persons of Nagorno-Karabakh. The aid was announced by the Slovenian Foreign Ministry on social media. “In the face of multiple humanitarian crises, we haven’t forgotten refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia extended its support to Slovenia during last August’s floods, now…
Reuters. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday (January 5) he told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call that Venezuela must not be dragged into instability after the toppling of its leader Nicolas Maduro. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Erdogan also said Ankara would stand with the people of Venezuela. He…
Till today, the Armenian parties have taken all the necessary steps, in the context of confidence building, including handing over all the landmine maps to Azerbaijan, but in response, Azerbaijan continues to make false accusations about ongoing installation of minefields and contrary to the agreements didn’t even release prisoners of war and other people in…
The meeting between Recep Erdogan and Ilham Aliyev took place in Istanbul. The presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan exchanged ideas on the agenda of peace and regulation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Erdogan and Aliyev discussed the prospects and further deepening of cooperation in the political, economic, trade, energy, military and military-technical fields. Aliyev…
Russian peacekeepers promptly took measures to defuse tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, where a fire exchange took place on Tuesday, April 11, near the village of Tegh, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Wednesday, TASS reports. “On April 11, there was an armed incident at the line of disengagement on…
California’s largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scrambled to meet the danger, AP reports. The Park Fire’s intensity and dramatic spread led fire officials to make unwelcome comparisons to the monstrous Camp Fire, which burned out of control in…
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), stressed that resolving the nuclear issue of a country like Iran is not possible through military means and that negotiation is the only viable path. In his remarks, he highlighted the different dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program, saying: “The possibility that Iran might…
Armen Grigoryan, the Secretary of Security Council of Armenia during his working visit to Brussels, met with the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Union, Gert Jan Koopman. This was reported by Armenia’s Security Council. At the meeting, the parties discussed the dynamically developing Armenia-EU bilateral relations and indicated the directions…
NATO leaders announced a commitment to provide long-term security assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said NATO summit joint declaration, published on July 10, The New Voice of Ukraine reports. This step is aimed at strengthening Alliance’s deterrence and defence, bolstering long-term support to Ukraine so it can prevail in its fight for freedom,…
Ambassador Narek Mkrtchyan delivered a lecture at the headquarters of the reputable U.S. RAND Corporation, Armenia’s Embassy to the United States reports. The meeting was also attended by the Consul General of the Republic of Armenia in Los Angeles, Anna Avetisyan. During the visit, the Ambassador held meetings with Nancy Staudt, Dean of…
On December 1, Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan met with US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations Phillip Reeker, the Office of the Security Council said in a statement.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian had a telephone conversation on Wednesday and exchanged ideas on current regional issues, focusing on the situation in the Persian Gulf, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports. It is noted that the two ministers confirmed the commonality of the positions of Moscow and Tehran in…
In Strasbourg the PACE Session goes on. The MPs, who are on the waiting list, but have no opportunity to give a speech due to time constraints, can send their speeches for publication. The member of the RA NA delegation to PACE Sona Ghazaryan also took such an opportunity. In her speech the MP noted:…
The European Union does not have evidence of Chinese weapons supplies to Russia, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said at a forum in Singapore, TASS reports. “China has committed not to supply arms [to Russia] and we don’t have evidence that this is happening,” he said, taking questions from participants in the…
In his speech, French Senator Jean-Pierre Rochet criticized the giving great significance to Azerbaijani gas. “The fact that we need Azerbaijani gas does not mean that we should turn a blind eye to Azerbaijan’s aggression against Armenians. Armenia lives under the constant threat of Azerbaijan. The resolution will ensure the security of Armenia…
The U.S. Embassy in Baku referred to the latest developments in Armenia-Azebaijan process. “While in Baku yesterday, Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations Louis Bono met with high-level officials to discuss U.S. support for the parties in reaching a durable and dignified peace in the South Caucasus. Dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia is essential to…
Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev discussed the current state and future prospects of the Azerbaijan-NATO partnership during a political dialogue in the NATO+Azerbaijan format with allied states at NATO headquarters as a part of his visit to Belgium on June 12–13,…
US President Donald Trump stated on Sunday that he would help defend Poland and the Baltic states if Russia keeps escalating, Euronews reports. Answering a question by a journalist from the Italian news agency Ansa on whether the US would come to the aid of its NATO allies on the border with Russia, Trump…
Foreign Minister of Sweden Ann Linde welcomed the recent trilateral meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and President of the European Council Charles Michel in Brussels. “Welcome continued strong engagement by President of the European Council Charles Michel and the 4th meeting between leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Important for EU…
The Human Rights Defender of Armeniapublished a preliminary report on the results of fact-finding activities conducted at the places of registration of forcibly displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh, Ombudsperson’s press office reports. The Human Rights Defender Ms. Anahit Manasyan published a preliminary report in English on the results of the fact-finding activities conducted by her…
On Thursday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will leave for Baku on a working visit, where he will take part in the XI Russia-Azerbaijan Interregional Forum. According to the press service of the Russian government, Mishustin will meet with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will hold talks with the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan…
Reuters. Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday its national security was a red line and backed a call for UAE forces to leave Yemen within 24 hours, hours after a Saudi-led coalition carried out an airstrike on the southern Yemeni port of Mukalla. The warning represented Riyadh’s strongest language against Abu Dhabi yet, as the…
Member of Parliament Gevorg Papoyan has dismissed as “unreasonable” the statements made by Azerbaijani authorities about the need for guarantees ruling out possible revanchism in order to sign a peace treaty. Papoyan, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs, said that signing a peace treaty in itself would mean that no…
