Armenia is among the invitees to an EU summit to discuss a new organisation uniting the democracies of the European continent, The Guardian reported citing President of the European Council Charles Michel. The informal summit will take place in Prague on 6 October to forge a European Political Community. The new British PM will also…
President of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan, who is in the Islamic Republic of Iran on an official visit, met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amir Abdollahian on June 16. After the exchange of greetings, the parties spoke about 30 years of diplomatic relations…
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…
Speaking to journalists on the plane back from the BRICS meeting in Kazan, Recep Erdogan commented on his meeting with Russian President Putin and responded to the question of whether he noticed a new will in Putin to end the war in Ukraine, BTA reported. “As in our meeting with the President of Ukraine…
Negotiations are on to organize a meeting between the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, according to a senior lawmaker in Armenia’s Parliament. “Recently rather active work is done in the diplomatic sector, including in the context of the parliament, parliamentary diplomacy,” Eduard Aghajanyan, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee…
The press secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, commented on the ratification of the agreement on the status of the European Union mission in Armenia and the granting of diplomatic immunity to the mission. “At this moment, it is probably worth questioning the possible effectiveness of such a mission,” said Peskov, at the same…
A peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia may be signed in the foreseeable future, but in the end, what matters most is not when it is inked but that all issues are resolved, Russian presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday, TASS reports. According to the Kremlin spokesman, representatives of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and…
Russia has no idea how former US President Donald Trump’s election pledges regarding a prompt settlement of the conflict over Ukraine can be translated into life, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told the media, TASS reports. “No, we do not have an understanding of how this can be implemented. There have been no…
Russia has made and continue to make efforts to assist Azerbaijan and Armenia in developing a balanced peace treaty designed to make an irreplaceable contribution to the reconciliation of the two neighboring states, to the restoration of peace and security in the South Caucasus for the long term, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said…
Iran hopes for the reopening of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, said at a briefing on Monday. He recalled that the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Iran recently held a phone conversation. “Over the past 2-3 months, both countries have engaged in a series of delegation…
US special envoy Steve Witkoff tells families of hostages in Tel Aviv that a majority of Israelis and Gazans want hostages held by Hamas to be returned, as quoted by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum in a Hebrew statement, The Times of Israel reports. “A majority of Israelis want the hostages at home,…
Turkish President Erdogan refused to report to the EU for participation in the SCO summit. Ankara does not intend to report to the European Union (EU) for participation in the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This statement was made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an interview with PBS. “The European Union…
US President Joe Biden is expected to revive a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Berlin this week, according to three Western officials familiar with the matter, as the top arms suppliers to Ukraine consider future support for a conflict that’s about to enter…
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has arrived in Georgia on a working visit. The Prime Minister of Armenia was welcomed by Levan Davitashvili, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia at Batumi International Airport. A meeting between Prime Minister Pashinyan and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili is…
China encourages the warring sides of Russia and Ukraine to maintain communication and cooperation on humanitarian issues, said a Chinese envoy to the United Nations on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting, Geng Shuang, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, said that as the Ukraine crisis drags on and the…
The US Department of the Interior (DoI) has announced a final rule overturning restrictions set by the Joe Biden administration that limited oil and gas drilling activities across a significant portion of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. The decision is in line with President Donald Trump’s aim to ease regulations on domestic fossil fuel extraction,…
Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia, offered her condolences over the deadly explosion in a Yerevan market. “Deeply saddened by the shocking explosion in Yerevan. I express my deepest condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones, but also strength and resilience to the emergency workers. I stand with the people of Armenia”, she…
On Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet with colleagues from Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ministers of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, in Moscow to discuss repairing relations between Baku and Yerevan, TASS reports. A separate Armenian-Azerbaijani meeting will be conducted to discuss the chances for a peace pact. The ministers will…
EU issued a statement on recent developments around the Lachin corridor, which reads: “The European Union is following with great concern the continued restrictions on free movement along the Lachin corridor and the serious humanitarian and security consequences affecting the Karabakh Armenians. Movement through the Lachin corridor has been impaired for almost 9 months, and,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, Putin’s aide Yury Ushakov said, TASS reports. According to Ushakov, Moscow considers the summit in Astana as an “opportunity to organize bilateral contacts with the country leaders who will attend it.” That is…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered its diplomats worldwide to stop processing visas for Afghan nationals, according to a State Department cable seen by Reuters, effectively suspending the special immigration program for Afghans who helped the United States during its 20-year-long occupation of their home country, Reuters reports. The cable, sent to all…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif had a telephone conversation. They exchanged views on the prospects for bilateral cooperation between Azerbaijan and Pakistan in economic, trade, energy, industrial, military, scientific, educational, tourism and other spheres. Նյութերը գեներացվում են տարբեր կայքերից արհեստական բանականության միջոցով
The CSTO will clarify the details of position of Armenia, who stated it will not hold CSTO military exercises in 2023, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday, adding that Moscow will continue the dialogue with Yerevan on complicated issues. “This is a rather new statement from the Armenian Prime Minister; I believe the…
Spain and Portugal experienced a widespread power outage on Monday, leaving millions without electricity in a snap blackout, Euronews reports. In Portugal, official sources told domestic media that the outage, which hit around late morning local time, was nationwide, while similar reports emerged from Spain. Madrid’s Barajas International Airport and Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado…
“We have been observing Russia’s aggressive policy for centuries, and our response to Russia’s policy will be Europe, peace and peace in Europe,” said Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili at the briefing related to Monday accident when Russian forces shot dead a Georgian citizen and wounded and abducted the other in South Ossetia. The President…
A firefighting helicopter crashed Wednesday as it headed to the Turkish port of Marmaris to combat a wildfire, killing two crew members, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said, ABC News reports. The ministry said five others also on the helicopter were injured. The helicopter crew included two Russians and five Turkish citizens, but the ministry did not…
Reuters. President-elect Donald Trump returned to the White House on Wednesday (November 13) for the first time since winning the U.S. presidential election and sat down for talks about the looming transfer of power with longtime political rival President Joe Biden. Biden met Trump in the Oval Office in front of a roaring fireplace….
A federal judge on Thursday ordered that the Trump administration preserve all Signal messages exchanged in the now-infamous Signal group chat in which officials conducted a high-level military operation on the unclassified commercial app and inadvertently included a journalist, The Guardian reports. The temporary restraining order from James Boasberg, the chief US district judge…
Certainly, the EU observation mission was informed about the provocation that happened yesterday and the fire fired by the Azerbaijani side in the direction of the servicemen and positions of the Armenian Armed Forces with various weapons, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated during the Parliament-Government question-and-answer session. “Today, the EU press service has already…
Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday (October 18) there is a possibility of working towards a ceasefire in Lebanon but it will be harder in Gaza. Biden, on a visit to Berlin, also told reporters he has an understanding of how and when Israel will respond to the missile attacks by Iran….
