Sagiv Jehezkel, the Israeli soccer player suspended from top-tier Turkish club Antalyaspor for an on-pitch protest in support of hostages held in Gaza, is returning to Israel after he was briefly detained by police, CNN reports. Jehezkel, who had been held by police in Antalya, was suspended by Antalyaspor over the weekend after showing…
At least 28 people were killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli airstrikes. According to media reports, four children and two women were among at least 13 people killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, late yesterday. Another four people were killed in strikes near a fuel station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes…
“We need several years to draw closer to the EU member states. The law On Transparency of Foreign Influence is significant to speed up economic development,” said Prime Minister of Georgia Ikarli Kobakhidze, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. According to the PM, the activities of non-government organizations obstructed the country’s progress by their attempts to…
In Washington DC, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with Erika Olson, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Philip Reeker, the U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group and Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations. It was followed by the meeting of the Foreign Minister of Armenia, the U.S. Deputy…
The European Parliament passed its annual report on Turkey with 448 votes in favor, 67 against and 107 abstentions. The document also touched upon Turkey’s relations with Armenia and the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The report refers to the European Parliament’s report of 15 April 2015 on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide and…
Does Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan consider meeting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu? A question was asked to the Armenian Foreign Minister during the press conference with Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huifeldt. At the press conference following the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Turkic States, Cavusoglu expressed his willingness to…
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani, held two separate telephone conversations with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Jeyhun Bayramov, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Ararat Mirzoyan, the OSCE press office reports. Minister Osmani expressed his concerns about the situation…
Azerbaijan has offered Armenia to hold a meeting on the state border to continue the peace talks, according to a statement released by the Azerbaijani foreign ministry. “Azerbaijan is ready for direct bilateral talks with Armenia to achieve the peace deal as soon as possible. We believe that the two countries should decide the…
“Greece will not leave any challenge unanswered,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, expressing the hope that the “unacceptable rhetoric” from Turkey will cease, ekathimerini.com reports. Speaking after the end of the informal EU summit in Prague, Mitsotakis said: “I hope that this unacceptable rhetoric of questioning our country’s sovereignty over the islands of…
We firmly support the territorial integrity of Georgia and do not recognize the de facto leaders of the regions of “South Ossetia” and Abkhazia, nor their representatives, with whom we do not consider it justified to make contact, ”says the vice-president of the parliamentary group of the Forza Italia party and the deputy , responsible…
On September 27, a telephone conversation took place between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Lavrov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Bayramov, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports. The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh was discussed, including “issues of providing humanitarian aid to the Armenian population, ensuring their rights and security”….
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has submitted his resignation amid a corruption scandal, Reuters reports. Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies searched Yermak’s home in the morning on Friday. Yermak said he was fully cooperating with the investigators. Նյութերը գեներացվում են տարբեր կայքերից արհեստական բանականության միջոցով
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his primary rival in the presidential election, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party, plan to hold rallies in Istanbul on the same day but in different districts. The Haberler news portal reports on Friday. According to the news portal, the rallies will be held in the…
On March 2, on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with Helga Schmid, the OSCE Secretary General. The interlocutors discussed issues of cooperation between Armenia and the OSCE, including the implementation of particular projects. Regional issues were touched…
Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Ambassador James O’Brien touched upon the topic of peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan during a virtual press briefing. He was asked to assess the prospects of supporting Armenia through the European Peace Facility mechanism that was voiced or announced by the EU recently and…
The procedure for considering Ukraine’s application for membership in the European Union has begun. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands Vsevolod Chentsov wrote about this on Twitter, UNIAN reports. “I handed Ukraine’s application for membership in the European Union, signed by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, to Philippe…
Moscow welcomes the holding of negotiations between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia on the peace treaty in Almaty on May 10 and 11, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin stated in an interview with the News.ru platform. According to him, another step has been taken in the direction of achieving reliable and long-term…
Reuters. A U.S. judge dismissed on Monday (April 13) Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over an article asserting the U.S. president’s name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but said Trump could re-file the case. Miami-based U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has announced that the Islamic Republic and the Azerbaijan agree that the historical railway corridor passing through Iran needs to be activated, IRNA reports. Amirabdollahian made the remarks to reporters on Wednesday after meeting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, where the top diplomat attended a ministerial meeting of…
U.S. President Donald Trump sent a letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, expressing gratitude for being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize through an initiative by Baku and Yerevan. “Thank you for your joint letter. This high recognition inspires us to continue our important mission,” Trump noted, emphasizing that as President he sought to…
Member of the European Parliament Nathalie Loiseau informed that on her initiative the European Parliament can hold a debate on the issue of COP29 to be held in Azerbaijan. “The protection of the planet is, of course, important, but the holding of the conference in Baku raises serious questions,” Loiseau said. She reminded that…
Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan reminded on her Twitter microblog that today, at 11:00 p.m. Yerevan time, it is possible to follow the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council online. It is held at the request of Armenia in connection with the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of…
Chief of the General Staff of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces Kerim Veliyev and Commander of the Pakistani Ground Forces Asim Munir discussed issues of expanding and strengthening military cooperation on Tuesday. The meeting was held in Islamabad as a part of Veliyev’s official visit to Pakistan. According to the press service of the Ministry…
“Georgian Prime Minister [Irakli Kobakhidze] was invited to the U.S. with the agreement that before the visit, the Georgian Parliament would temporarily suspend the debate on a draft bill “on the transparency of foreign influence,” the country’s Foreign Ministry has said, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. “Today, the U.S. ambassador’s statement was issued, stating that…
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) has voted to support President Volodimir Zelensky’s decree extending the martial law and mobilization in Ukraine for 90 more days, till November 21, Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on Monday. “Parliament has supported bill 7664 on the extension of the martial law for 90 days, till November 21, 2022. The…
On June 21, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a telephone conversation with Ayman Safadi, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The interlocutors discussed regional issues. The Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan welcomed Armenia’s recognition of the…
Russia and Ukraine each handed back 90 prisoners of war on Tuesday (June 26) in the latest of several periodic swaps in their 28-month-old conflict, with the United Arab Emirates overseeing the exchange as an intermediary, Reuters reports. The last exchange took place on May 31, when each side handed over 75 prisoners of…
Against the background of Russia’s pulling of military units and military equipment to the border with Ukraine, NATO plans to expand its presence on the eastern flank. This week, 30 member countries of the alliance approved the corresponding initiative during the written procedure, writes dpa, citing sources, Deutsche Welle reports. In this case, we are…
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, during the weekly briefing, commenting on the French President’s statement on intensifying mediation efforts and intensifying pressure on Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, noted that Moscow welcomes any initiative that does not contradict Russia’s efforts to normalize relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which do not…
Reuters. Sheikh Naim Qassem was named as Hezbollah’s new leader today, October 29. Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general Sheikh Naim Qassem has been a senior figure in the Iran-backed movement for more than 30 years. Born in 1953 in Beirut to a family from Lebanon’s south, Naim Qassem’s political activism began with the Lebanese Shi’ite…
