Washington has warned Turkey that there will be “consequences” if the country does not curtail its exports to Russia of US military-linked hardware, Financial Times reports. Matthew Axelrod, assistant commerce secretary leading US efforts to keep sensitive technology out of the hands of America’s adversaries, recently met Turkish officials and executives in Ankara and…
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid of the Iranian Red Crescent have crossed the Armenian-Iranian border. This was reported by the Armenian Red Cross Society. “The Red Crescent of the Islamic Republic of Iran has sent humanitarian aid to flood victims in northern Armenia. Humanitarian aid will be transferred as assistance to flood victims in Lori…
EU Mission in Armenia announces full operation capability, said the mission. “Today, EU Mission in Armenia announces full operation capability as it opens HQ in Yeghegnazdzor in the presence of Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan. Over 1000 patrols covering length of the Armenian border with Azerbaijan since mission launch in February”, EUMA said in a…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry welcomed a two-month extension of the truce brokered by the UN between the Saudi-led invading coalition and Yemeni forces, once again hoping for a permanent ceasefire and finding a political solution to the crisis, Tasnim News Agency reports. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh expressed hope that the truce will be the…
US Vice President JD Vance has said that the US will not intervene in the conflict between Pakistan and India, calling fighting between the two nuclear powers “fundamentally none of our business”, The Guardian reports. The remarks came during an interview with Fox News, where the US vice-president said that the US would seek…
A delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, composed of rapporteurs Bernd Vöhringer (Germany, EPP/CCE) and Bryony Rudkin (United Kingdom, SOC/G/PD), will carry out a study visit to Yerevan and the municipality of Masis on 19 December 2023 to follow up on Declaration 7 (2023) on “The humanitarian situation in Karabakh and neighbouring…
Ned Price, US State Department Spokesperson referred to the latest developments in peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan during his regular press briefing. “We’re going to do what is ultimately most helpful. And at the end of last year, there were a couple meetings that the Secretary chaired between his counterparts, a trilateral meeting…
China congratulates Joseph Aoun on his election as Lebanon’s president, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun at a press briefing in Beijing on Friday, Reuters reports. Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun was elected president in the second round of the presidential vote held on Thursday. “China welcomes the election of a new president…
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “Whatever sanctions EU member states agree on, we’ll back them,” Hungary Today reports. In an interview with public news channel M1 on Sunday, he stressed that “strategic composure is necessary in time of war.” Orbán reiterated his position that Hungary must “concentrate efforts on staying out of…
Syria has applied to join BRICS, said the country’s ambassador to Russia, Bashar Jaafari. “We are very interested in joining BRICS. We have sent written requests to join the organization,” he told TASS on the sidelines of the conference called North Caucasus: New Geostrategic Opportunities. BRICS has gone through two waves of expansion…
United States President Donald Trump has ruled out sending US troops to Ukraine to guarantee its security in the event of an agreement to end Russia’s war in the country, Al Jazeera reports. Asked during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday what assurances he could provide that US troops would not be deployed…
Ukraine’s parliament on Wednesday voted to remove multiple officials from their posts amid a mass resignation a day earlier, marking the largest government reshuffle since the start of the country’s war with Russia. Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on Telegram that the Verkhovna Rada approved the resignations of Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin, Deputy…
The warm Armenian-Iranian relations, which have a centuries-old history and are based on mutual respect, are of particular importance for Armenia and the Armenian people, that are still dynamically developing today: Welcoming the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Armenia Mehdi Sobhani in the Parliament, the Head of the RA…
Sources told CNN that senior Hezbollah military figure Ibrahim Aqil was the target of Israel’s strike on southern Beirut that leveled a building, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens of others. Last year, to mark the 40th anniversary of Hezbollah’s bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut in 1983, the US State…
Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson at US Department of State, referred to the upcoming meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers in US. “We look forward to hosting another round of talks in Washington later this month as the parties continue to pursue a peaceful future for the South Caucasus region. As you’ve heard…
On August 9, the Ambassador of Armenia to India, Vahagn Afyan had a meeting with the Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Kumar Tuhin, Armenian Embassy in India reports. At the meeting, it was mentioned about the side event of Armenian painter Sargis Katchadourian’s works depicting the murals of Ajanta…
The information of the State Security Service is disturbing, concerning a terrorist act. Some individuals dislike the standpoint of the Georgian government about the war. In these conditions, there are threats, said Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze at the briefing echoing the statement of the State Security Service of Georgia (SSG), Georgian Public Broadcaster reports….
Congressman Adam Schiff referred to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh on his Facebook page. “From the day the blockade of the Lachin Corridor began, I, alongside my colleagues in Congress and Armenians around the country, have urged the White House, the State Department, and USAID, to take action to protect the people of…
Georgia’s application for European Union membership, as well as the progress made by the country in implementing the 2014 EU-Georgia Association Agreement and related democratic reforms were discussed on Tuesday in a meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and the President of the European Council Charles Michel, agenda.ge reports. The meeting focused on…
“Belgium welcomes the Council’s decision to support Armenia through the European Peace Facility.” It was mentioned in the X microblog of the Belgian MFA.
The Georgian Ministry of Defense has responded to the recent announcement by the US Department of Defense regarding the indefinite postponement of the Noble Partner multinational exercise, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. The Ministry expressed regret over the decision, emphasizing the mutual benefits such international exercises provide for both Georgia and the United States, as…
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday (February 22) met the wife and daughter of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died last week, “to express his heartfelt condolences,” the White House said. During the meeting in California, Biden expressed his admiration for Navalny’s “extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting against corruption and…
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan received European Union’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, Toivo Klaar. During the meeting FM Mirzoyan presented Armenia’s position on the establishment of regional peace and stability and the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and in this context reaffirmed the importance…
United States Congresswoman Katie Porter has said that Azerbaijan’s goal in blocking the Lachin Corridor is to force the ethnic Armenians of Artsakh from their homeland by imposing conditions that make life impossible. She made the remarks at the Congressional Armenian Genocide Observance – 2023. “Our response must also be clear. We must…
French President Emmanuel Macron ordered France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the war in the Middle East. Macron said the Charles de Gaulle carrier will be escorted by frigates and its air wing. In a prerecorded speech on French TV, Macron…
The Kremlin expects that Belgrade’s sending weapons to Ukraine will not affect Russian-Serbian relations, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, TASS reports. “This topic was raised during our contacts with the Serbian friends, and clarifications and guarantees were given by our Serbian colleagues. We expect that this is and will be the case,”…
On 17 December, a group of MEPs held a rally in support of journalists and activists arrested in Azerbaijan. MEPs from different political groups called to put an end to repression against civil society and independent media in Azerbaijan. On 18 December, within the framework of the Plenary Session of the European Parliament,…
Foreign ministers of Iran and Turkey have underlined the need for developing diplomatic efforts to put pressure on Israel to accept a ceasefire and stop onslaught in the Gaza Strip, IRNA reports. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan held a phone conversation on Monday night in order to discuss…
Turkish opposition DEVA Party Chairman Ali Babacan said on Wednesday said that the country was on the verge of total bankruptcy, T24 news site reported. Babacan criticized the Turkish government for its stewardship of the economy at a weekly evaluation meeting held at the party’s headquarters in Ankara. “Today, I want to say…
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…
