Tiny Kox, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), issued the following statement today:   “Given the further deterioration of the humanitarian and human rights situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, I recall the Assembly’s request of 20 June, to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, to organise a fact-finding…

“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…

France violates stability not only in former and current colonies, but also in the South Caucasus: Ilham Aliyev announced in his speech to the participants of the international conference “Decolonization. Development of women’s potential”.   According to the words of the President of Azerbaijan, by arming Armenia, Paris “conducts a warmongering policy and prepares the…

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan congratulated Cho Tae-Yul on his appointment as Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea. “I send my congratulations to H.E. Mr. CHO TAE-YUL on appointment as FM of Republic of Korea and best wishes for successful tenure. I look forward to working together to further deepen Armenian-Korean political dialogue, advance…

German deputy Merle Spellerberg joined EU Mission in Armenia in Vayots Dzor and Ararat Regions, the Mission said.    “Today, EUMA hosted  German MEP Merle Spellerberg, accompanied Chargé d’Affaires of Germany Embassy in Armenia, Erik Tintrup, in our operational hub in Jermuk. After our monitors briefed them on the current situation, the delegation joined our…

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during which the results of the trilateral meeting of the heads of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan in Sochi on October 31 were discussed, the Kremlin press service reports. Detailed thoughts were exchanged regarding the situation related to the implementation of agreements…

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan met with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili in New York. The Prime Minister referred to the occupation of the territories of Armenia as a result of the aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against the sovereign territory of Armenia and the resulting situation. Irakli Garibashvili emphasized the importance of maintaining peace…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met his Iranian counterpart on Thursday (June 23), as world powers and Tehran are struggling to revive their 2015 nuclear pact and negotiations are stalled. Lavrov shook hands with Hossein Amirabdollahian in the capital Tehran, a day after arriving in the country, before officials from both states sat down for…

Yaşar Güler and Zakir Hasanov, the heads of the defense agencies of Turkey and Azerbaijan, met in Ankara. Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense informed that the prospects of military cooperation between Baku and Ankara and regional security were discussed during the meeting.   There was also a reference to the prospects of development of cooperation between…

Secretary Blinken released the annual International Religious Freedom Report, which details the status of religious freedom in nearly 200 countries and territories around the world and highlights U.S. policies that promote religious freedom around the world, US Embassy in Yerevan reports.    In country section for Armenia, the report says: “The constitution states that everyone…

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected for his third consecutive presidential term on Sunday, TASS reports.   He will take the oath in the year when the country celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey.   Ahmet Yener, who heads Turkey’s highest election authority, the Supreme Election Council, said late on Sunday that…

Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson at US Department of State, referred to the issue of political prisoners during a press briefing. Journalists reminded him that Secretary Anthony Blinken spoke with Azerbaijani president lham Aliyev, and last week Assistant Secretary James O’Brien spent his days in Baku. They asked is there any concern that these high-level…

Azerbaijan’s deadly attacks in Nagorno-Karabakh are not only a violation of the ceasefire, but also an unacceptable of its recent pattern of aggression. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee stated this in a post on Twitter. “Azerbaijani forces must withdraw from the region and end hostilities against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh,” the post reads.

Edmon Marukyan, Ambassador-at-large of Armenia, Chairman of Bright Armenia Party, wrote on his Facebook page: “During the last week, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan has been spreading false statements almost every day, as if the Armenian forces fired in different directions of the contact line, and they took retaliatory actions, after which the fire was…

Protests again commenced in Georgia, they are being held against the background of news that the Parliament will try to bypass the veto applied by President Salome Zourabishvili to the controversial bill ‘On transparency of foreign influence’ at the May 28 session.   The participants of the protest gathered in front of the buildings of…

“Azerbaijan is a strategic partner of Israel”, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced during the joint press conference after the meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov, Azerbaijani media report. The Minister noted that the decision to open the Azerbaijani embassy in Israel shows the depth of strategic relations between the two countries. “For 30…

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 people of Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions want referendums, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky has nothing to ask of Russia and its leadership in this situation, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, commenting on Zelensky’s statements that holding referendums in these territories on joining Russia would mean the end of talks with Moscow,…

The death toll from the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria passed 38,000 as only a handful of survivors were pulled from the rubble more than a week after the disasters that devastated swaths of both countries.    Turkey’s disaster agency said around 32,000 had been recorded killed in the country. Rebel-held northwest Syria: More…