US Secretary of State Antony Blinken posted on the X page. “We welcome the announcement that Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed upon the 1991 Alma Ata declaration as the basis for border delimitation between the two countries. This is an important step towards concluding a durable and dignified peace agreement,” Blinken stated.
Canada’s deputy prime minister and minister of finance has resigned amid growing tensions with the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, over the looming threat posed by Donald Trump’s “America First” economic nationalism, The Guardian reports. Chrystia Freeland stood down on Monday, just hours before she was due to release the country’s first economic plan ahead…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a loan of up to 35 billion euros ($39 billion) for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv on Friday, saying it was needed to defend the country against Russian attacks and help it get through the winter, Reuters reports. Standing beside her at a joint press…
Matthew Miller, US State Department Spokesperson referred to the announcement by Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to the US President on Nagorno-Karabakh. “He mentioned that the Congress should support supplemental, because it also covers, among other conflicts, he mentioned Nagorno-Karabakh. So what additional resources you are seeking right now?”, journalist asked. “There are additional…
Riots broke out in Amsterdam Nieuw-West on Monday evening when a group of dozens of people threw heavy fireworks and pelted cars. A tram caught fire after fireworks were thrown into it. There was no one in the tram when the fire broke out. The fire was quickly extinguished. A bus was also pelted…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze in Brussels on Wednesday (21 February 2024) to discuss further strengthening the Alliance’s long-standing partnership with Georgia, NATO press office reports. The Secretary General emphasised that Georgia is a close partner and reiterated NATO’s full support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity….
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on the international community to respond to the attack of the Azerbaijani Air Force on Nagorno-Karabakh in his Twitter. “Urging international community to take practical steps to ensure rights and security of Nagorno-Karabakh people. Meanwhile Lachin Corridor remains illegally blocked, tonight as result of Azerbaijani attack with use of…
On April 11, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan received the French Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Bryce Roquef. The page of the official representative of the RA MFA on Facebook reports this.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to make progress on a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine, AP reports. Vance gave the first American pope a letter…
Pakistan bombed Taliban government targets in Afghanistan’s major cities overnight, officials from both countries said on Friday, with Pakistan’s defence minister describing the conflict as “open war,” Reuters reports. According to Reuters, security sources in Pakistan said the strikes involved air and ground strikes against Taliban posts, headquarters and ammunition depots in multiple sectors…
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke with Chief Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to the Turkish President, Ambassador Akif Cagatay Kilic, the White House said in a statement. Sullivan underscored the urgent need for Hamas to accept Israel’s proposal to bring about an immediate ceasefire as part of a hostage deal. “They also discussed…
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who chairs the Eurasian Economic Union, will chair the jubilee summit of the organization, which will take place on May 8 in Moscow. Yuri Ushakov, assistant to the Russian President, informed the journalists about this in a briefing. “The session is dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the signing…
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 was recorded in Turkey, reports the European Mediterranean Seismological Center. According to the center, the epicenter of the earthquake was registered 8 km southeast of the city of Kayseri. There are no reports of casualties or damage. Earlier, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 was recorded in…
Drone attacks on Moscow and Europe’s attempts to talk to Russia from a position of strength were the main topics on the agenda of Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s daily briefing on Friday. TASS has compiled the key statements of the Kremlin representative. About the President’s schedule – Russian President Vladimir Putin will lay…
Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Army General Dmitry Bulgakov who was in charge of troop logistics support has been apprehended on corruption charges and taken into Moscow’s Lefortovo pretrial detention facility, the press office of the Federal Security Service (FSB) told TASS on Friday. “The Federal Security Service jointly with the Interior Ministry and…
Georgia-US relations need to be restarted and improved. We will do everything for this, stated Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze at a press briefing. The Prime Minister stressed the importance of recognizing the need to reset and enhance these relations, urging constructive actions, 1tv.ge reports. “We are fully committed to this endeavour. It’s…
Today, the party founded by Alt-Info opened an office in Akhaltsikhe. The founders of the party were present at the site. Giorgi Kardava General Secretary of the “Conservative Party” says they have sponsors from Russia and Europe. The plan of the “Conservative Party” in the region is the opening of the Russian market and the…
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea has blown up part of the inter-Korean roads on the Gyeongui and Donghae lines on its side of the heavily militarised border. In a text message sent to the Defense Ministry press team on Tuesday, the JCS said the North blew up a section of…
The US Congress’ approval of the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey will depend on Ankara’s behavior, and the decision to supply Greece with fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets has nothing to do with it. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated during a press conference in Alexandroupolis. “We are interested in our own weapons program….
President of Turkey Recep Erdogan has canceled his participation in the summit of the Organization of Turkic States in Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh, A Haber channel reported. According to the channel, President Recep Erdogan canceled his participation in the summit of the Organization of Turkic States because of his intention to personally attend the match between…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry reports. The parties discussed a number of current issues of bilateral and regional agenda. “The Russian side emphasized the need for the immediate complete unblocking of traffic through the Lachin…
The West must prepare for a long war in Ukraine as Russia makes incremental gains in a furious battle to control the country’s east, the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both said, CNN reports. In separate comments published Sunday, Stoltenberg and Johnson also reiterated that Western governments…
During the Government session, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reiterated Armenia’s commitment to the 9 November 2020, 11 January and 26 November 2021 and 31 October 2022 trilateral statements, as well as the 6 October 2022 quadrilateral agreements in Prague. “I have to emphasize that the continuous blockade of Lachin Corridor makes it even more…
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,…
The reelection of President Ilham Aliyev, who silences all dissent, is assured without much suspense on 7 February 2024. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the wave of arrests of journalists that started on 20 November and calls on the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is observing the election, to roundly condemn…
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh reiterated New Delhi’s position on the need to build dialogue to resolve the Ukrainian conflict in a phone call with his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu, as Singh himself wrote on Twitter. “Had a telephonic conversation with the Defense Minister of Russia, Mr Sergey Shoigu today. We discussed bilateral cooperation,…
Reuters. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday (June 26) that the U.S. “achieved nothing” when it joined the war with Israel against Tehran, his account said in a posting on X. “The Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap to the US’s face,” Khamenei added. “It attacked and inflicted damage on the…
Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi has said that a deal with the United States to avert conflict is “within reach”, in advance of talks between the two countries in Geneva, Switzerland, Al Jazeera reports. Araghchi said that the “historic opportunity to strike an unprecedented agreement” would depend on whether “diplomacy is given…
Turkish Foreign Ministry said Gaza school attack by Israel is a crime against humanity. “Israel has committed a new crime against humanity by massacring more than a hundred civilians who had taken refuge in a school building in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City. This attack demonstrated once again that the Netanyahu Government…
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…
