Reuters. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday (August 3) there were no talks under way with the United States and no plans for any meetings, while talks with Oman over management of the Strait of Hormuz continued. U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday (August 2) that a negotiation with…
Reuters/CCTV. China is ready to work with Germany to elevate China-Germany relations to a new level, so as to better serve the development of the two countries and inject more positive energy and stability into the world, said Chinese Premier Li Qiang during talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday. …
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…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said he “welcomes” U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest announcement about deploying 5,000 troops to Poland. NATO’s military commanders will work through details, Rutte said, during remarks to reporters ahead of the alliance’s foreign ministers’ meeting in Sweden, DW reported. Trump said he plans to send 5,000 troops to…
Türkiye will not discuss any energy-related projects with Israel without a cease-fire in Palestine’s Gaza as it would be disrespectful to its Palestinian brothers and sisters who are experiencing great brutality, the country’s energy minister has said. “In an environment of such great brutality, human drama, it would be disrespectful to humanity, to our…
French firefighters were battling on Wednesday to control the country’s biggest wildfire in almost 80 years, with the blaze in the southern Aude region having already swept through an area bigger than Paris, Reuters reports. One person died in the village of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, about 30 kilometers from the city of Perpignan, the prefecture said….
Armenian Defence Ministry says another fake news came from Azerbaijan on border situation. “The Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan has spread a fake news, claiming that units of the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire towards the Azerbaijani combat positions located in the Eastern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border zone on December 29”, the Ministry…
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…
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO Secretary General, referred to the blockade of Artsakh and Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan after visiting the entrance of it. “Today I visited the Lachin corridor. It is the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia and the outside world. In December last year, it was blocked by Azerbaijanis. Since…
Member of the European Parliament Nathalie Loiseau praised the EU Council decision regarding Armenia. “For the first time, the EU is providing support from the European Peace Facility to Armenia. Happy about this decision, for which I have been advocating for months”, Loiseau said in a post on X.
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has called on Iran to stop providing military support to Russia during a phone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Kallas shared details of the call on her X account, reiterating her appeal for Tehran to end its assistance to Moscow. She stressed that Russia”s…
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi referred to the regional security. “Regional peace, security and stability is not merely a preference, but a pillar of our national security. Any threat from North, South, East, or West to territorial integrity of our neighbors or redrawing of boundaries is totally unacceptable and a red line…
The West has left no stone unturned in its attempts to destabilize Iran amid the recent unrest. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said this, Press TV reports. “American and European political leaders, their news agencies and media supported by the West used the tragic incident with the death of a young woman and supported…
Iran and Turkey have issued a joint statement emphasizing the need to enhance the volume of trade between the two countries as well as pledging to work together to realize peace and stability in the region, IRNA news agency reports. The joint statement, issued at the end of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday to discuss bilateral ties and regional and global developments, Türkiye’s Communications Directorate announced, Anadolu reports. During the conversation, Erdogan expressed Türkiye’s commitment to strengthening relations with Hungary across all sectors. He noted that upcoming meetings of the High-Level…
“Azerbaijan took control over Saribaba in August but only in November claimed about new mines there. Why? Because in September they invaded Jermuk area, Armenia’s sovereign territory, got access to mines, transferred to Saribaba to falsely accuse Armenia for using Lachin corridor to transfer ammunitions,” Ambassador-at-Large of Armenia Edmon Marukyan tweeted.
Sergey Lavrov’s statement is positively evaluated by our government. The fact that Russia will welcome and support reconciliation is a good thing, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze said, answering the media’s question about the statement of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, according to which Moscow says it is ready to help Georgia “in the process of…
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke by phone today with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the US State Department reports. “The Secretary commended President Aliyev for last week’s announcement that Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to use the 1991 Alma Ata declaration as the basis for border delimitation and emphasized its importance to the two sides…
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó told Euronews that the country would not agree to the deployment of additional NATO troops on its territory. He noted that any conflict between the West and the East turns into serious problems for Central Europe. Hungary, according to Szijjártó, fears a new Cold War and therefore favors a diplomatic…
An Iranian court sentenced two people to death over an October attack on a shrine in the southern city of Shiraz that cost over a dozen lives, the judiciary said Saturday, The New Arab reports. The pair were convicted of assisting in “corruption on earth, armed rebellion and acting against national security,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported, citing…
Ambassador-at-Large Edmon Marukyan referred to the latest harsh response from the Azerbaijani expert society and the officials on the arrival of EU and OSCE observation missions to Armenia to monitor Armenia-Azerbaijan border. “Azerbaijani media is full of “expert” discussions against the arrival of EU and OSCE observers to Armenia. Ilham Aliyev, if you haven’t…
Russia expects that during the trilateral summit in Sochi, progress will be made in the issue of the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said, RBC reports. The Deputy Foreign Minister noted that there are still many problems, and they will be discussed at the meeting on October 31….
Ilham Aliyev was nominated as a candidate for the president of Azerbaijan in the extraordinary presidential elections, Tair Budagov, the vice-chairman of the ruling “Yeni Azerbaijan” party said. “Ilham Aliyev will be the candidate of the ruling “Yeni Azerbaijan” party in the extraordinary presidential elections to be held on February 7, 2024″, Budagov said.
The United States remains concerned the Lachin Corridor has now been blocked for over three weeks, creating a grave humanitarian situation. US Permanent Representative to the OSCE Michael Carpenter wrote about this in his Twitter. “We thank ICRC for providing critical aid during this time, but call on Azerbaijan and Russia to restore access immediately,” Carpenter…
The European Union urged the adherence to international law after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro early Saturday, Politico reports. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro and his wife “will soon face the full wrath of American justice” after they were flown out of Venezuela following a…
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the inauguration ceremony of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara. Prime Minister Pashinyan was welcomed by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu at the presidential complex. Leaders and high-ranking representatives of other countries were also present at the event.
EU Delegation to Armenia issued a statement on the occasion of the second anniversary of the 2020 Artsakh war. “Today we join Armenians in mourning for those who died on 27 September 2020 and on the following days and years. The loss of so many young lives has caused deep sorrow and bereavement. We…
Ukraine received its first 3 billion euro ($3.09 billion) tranche of the European Union’s portion of a loan agreed by the Group of Seven members and backed by the earnings from frozen Russian sovereign assets, Kyiv and Brussels said on Friday, Reuters reports. G7 leaders in October agreed to provide some $50 billion in…
US State Department Spokesman Ned Price, during a briefing with journalists, referring to the meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov in Georgia and the normalization of relations between the two countries, noted that the US plays an active role in that process. “US is ready and stand ready to…
Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the suitable places to hold a meeting with United States President Donald Trump. Putin said that he was not ‘on the whole’ against meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, adding that ‘certain conditions should be created’ for such a…
