On February 25, at the U.S. Department of Treasury Ambassador Narek Mkrtchyan met with Deputy Assistant Secretary Rebecca Burch, Armenian Embassy to the U.S. reports. During the meeting, the parties discussed issues related to Armenia–U.S. economic and financial cooperation, ongoing reforms in Armenia, as well as opportunities for expanding bilateral cooperation. Ambassador Mkrtchyan and…
Indeed, our partners in the EAEU and the CSTO are under tremendous pressure from unfriendly states. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated this in an interview with the International Affairs journal. “High-ranking officials from Western capitals have become regular visitors, holding “consultations” on ways to preclude “the circumvention” of the illegitimate anti-Russia sanctions. If we…
The US Senate approved the appointment of Mark Libby as ambassador to Azerbaijan, US Senate Majority Floor Updates’ X post said. Ambassador Libby was approved by voice vote. Earlier the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved his candidacy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday was “the beginning of the day after Hamas,” after confirming the death of the Islamist group’s leader and Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks, EFE reports. “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza (…) this is the beginning of the day after Hamas, and this is…
The meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and Russia Jeyhun Bayramov and Sergey Lavrov has started in Moscow. It takes place in the reception house of the Russian Foreign Ministry. A bilateral meeting between Ararat Mirzoyan and Sergey Lavrov will follow this meeting. A trilateral meeting with the participation of the Foreign…
Multiple explosions were seen and heard in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday (November 6) evening, as Israel continues hostilities against Hezbollah, Reuters reports. Earlier on Wednesday Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said there could be a road to indirect negotiations through the Lebanese state, but only if Israel decided to stop its attacks…
Armenia continues to believe that the Russian peacekeeping mission is able to restore the status quo established in Nagorno-Karabakh by the 2020 trilateral statement, the situation as of March 23, 2022, which has been violated by the incursion of the Azerbaijani armed forces into Parukh village in Askeran, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said at a…
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that peace in war-torn Ukraine was still not on the horizon and that talks between Moscow and Kyiv to bring the conflict to an end were not possible yet, Reuters reports. Speaking to media at an event in Portugal where he received the University of Lisbon 2020 prize, Guterres said…
The “Armenian Language” course will be relaunched at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC). The course is aimed at ensuring that Azerbaijani researchers “systematically follow the publications of the Armenian media, prepare analytical materials, receiving more complete information from sources in Armenian in connection with the current economic situation and the future situation…
On December 6, the Human Rights Defender Ms. Kristinne Grigoryan met Ms. Erica Olson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State overseeing policy for Southern Europe and the Caucasus, in Washington. The Defender expressed her gratitude for the efforts made by the State Department toward the repatriation of Armenian prisoners of war. She also presented the…
EUMA monitors regularly talk to local population, mission said in a statement. “As part of human security patrols, EUMA monitors regularly talk to local population, such as a shepherd from Navur village, to report to EU how the conflict affects their day-to-day life. EUMA contributes to human security of local population at the Armenia-Azerbaijan…
Reuters. France supports the reinforcement of the defense in the Arctic, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday (January 28), ahead of a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen. Nielsen and Frederiksen were in Paris to meet with Macron to shore up support over U.S. President Donald…
According to the Minister of Defense of Georgia, Juansher Burchuladze, in 2023, the Ministry of Defense signed important purchases in terms of strengthening the defense capability, which is responsible for the medium-term and long-term development of the Defense Forces, Interpressnews reports. “In long-term development, we have a specific goal of where we want to…
Moscow continues to be the venue for peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu told TASS in an interview. “We are grateful to Russia at present for intermediary efforts to normalize relations between Baku and Yerevan, and Moscow continues to be the platform for peace talks,” the Ambassador…
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk calls for free and safe movement through Lachin corridor to be immediately and fully enabled. “Unrestricted access to food, medicine and other basic goods and services is essential to the enjoyment of human rights by the affected population,” the UN Human Rights Twitter post reads.
North Korea launched around 190 trash-filled balloons toward South Korea as it resumed its months-long campaign, the latter’s military officials said on Saturday, Yonhap news agency reported. North Korea floated the balloons from late Friday to early Saturday morning, and at least 100 landed in the capital and its surrounding Gyeonggi province, the Joint…
I would like to proudly say that today the army is stronger and more compatible with NATO than ever,” said Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili, speaking at an event held in connection with the day of honored guests as part of the NATO-Georgia Exercise 2022 “. According to the head of government, these exercises…
Gen. Mazloum Abdi, top military commander for the Kurdish-led, U.S.-allied Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), said on Wednesday his alliance must suspend operations against the resurgent Islamic State in order to prepare for a potentially massive Turkish invasion that could put hundreds of American troops in Syria at risk. “We did not freeze the joint…
Reuters. U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday (March 24) Iran is negotiating with his government “but they’re afraid to say it.” Addressing the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner in D.C., Trump said leaders in Iran are afraid “they’ll be killed by their own people. They’re also afraid they’ll be killed by us.” …
China’s foreign ministry has dismissed as “groundless” the accusation by Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the country had been supplying weapons to Russia, The Guardian reports. The comments, made at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday, came a day after the Ukrainian president said China was supplying weapons to Russia, including gunpowder and artillery,…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday promised to introduce a new “civilian” constitution, Anadolu Agency reports. “We will work together to bring a civilian constitution to Turkey,” Erdogan said after a Cabinet meeting, which lasted more than eight hours, in the capital Ankara. “We want to follow our journey in the second…
The United States and European Union have agreed a trade deal, ending a months-long standoff between two of the world’s biggest economic partners, BBC reports. After make-or-break negotiations between President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland, the pair agreed a US tariff on all EU goods of 15%….
Democracy 1918, an Azerbaijani pro-democracy movement, has announced its intent to cease its activities citing continued government pressure against their members and a lack of resources. Democracy 1918 announced that its congress voted on ceasing the movement’s activities on 10 September, stating that the ‘anti-democratic system’ in the country and the environment it created…
The current situation in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was the focus of a telephone call between the Russian and Iranian Foreign Ministers, Sergey Lavrov and Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday, TASS reports. “The two top diplomats exchanged views on the current situation in the zone of the…
Turkey has welcomed the latest Armenia-Azerbaijan agreements. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Ankara wants Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign a peace treaty as soon as possible. “We welcome the decision to take some concrete confidence-building steps between the two countries, announced in a joint statement by the Presidential Administration…
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of targeting civilian homes in overnight air attacks, killing four people in the capital and two in the east, as fighting between the two neighbours entered its third week, overshadowed by the United States-Israel war on Iran igniting the Middle East, Al Jazeera reports. Women and children were…
Ambassador of Armenia to Egypt Hrachya Poladian met with Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit on July 6. At the beginning of the meeting Hrachya Poladian conveyed the letter of the Foreign Minister of Armenia on the accreditation of the representative of Armenia at the League of Arab States. On this…
On a visit to Sotk, Armenia, member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies Jon Inarritu issued a call to the international community, urging them to force Azerbaijan to respect the peace agenda and to leave Armenian lands. “We are in Sotk (Armenia), all this area was bombed by Azerbaijan in September, leading to civilian casualties and…
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…
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…
