Reuters. Britain signed a major defence deal with Norway on Thursday (December 4), building on the Nordic country’s 10 billion pound ($13 billion) purchase of UK warships at a time of heightened threats from Russia. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store at 10 Downing Street as the defence…
The meeting of the commissions for demarcation and border security between Armenia and Azerbaijan is planned to take place by the end of August in Moscow, Russia, Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan’s office said. No separate agenda of items is decided yet.
Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the blockade of food, oil, medicine, and other essential goods to a protected group should be considered a genocide, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Founding ICC Prosecutor, Former Deputy Prosecutor of the Trial of the Juntas, Founder of Global Practice Hub, stated in a Twitter post. He appealed…
Israel is “prepared for very intense action in the north” to restore security, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, speaking during a visit to Kiryat Shmona near the Lebanese border, The Jewish Chronicle reports. “We said, at the start of the war that we would restore security in both the south and the…
The U.S. government is probing whether China is supporting Russia’s nuclear industry by importing enriched uranium from its neighbor and exporting its own production to the U.S., which recently banned Russian uranium imports, Reuters has learned. U.S. House lawmakers passed the ban on Russian enriched uranium in December 2023 as part of a U.S….
Armenia does not have any armed formation in the territory of Nagorno Karabakh, the Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan said. Yeghoyan asked the Foreign Minister to comment on Azerbaijan’s accusations that the 9 November 2020 statement’s terms aren’t fully implemented. Azerbaijan pointed out the issue of re-opening of regional connections and accused…
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says during a Monday visit to Tehran by his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, the two foreign ministers discussed Oman’s initiatives for the return of all the JCPOA parties to the deal, IRNA news agency reports. He also said that his meeting with Albusaidi also focused on implementing the…
Georgia will begin production of unmanned reconnaissance drones by the end of 2022, Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze said on September 19. The drones will be produced jointly with a Polish company. “All formal processes with the Polish company have been completed,” the Minister said. He did not name the company, but specified…
US military officials are developing new plans to target Iran’s capabilities in the Strait of Hormuz in the event the current ceasefire with Iran falls apart, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, CNN reports. The options, among several sets of target types under consideration, include strikes with a particular focus on “dynamic…
Baku is ready to negotiate a peace treaty with Yerevan, the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan announced. “We think that after the meetings in Prague and Sochi, it is necessary to continue the negotiations,” said Jeyhun Bayramov. He also referred to the relations with Iran, informed that they are having an intensive dialogue with Tehran to…
Azerbaijan’s Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev and Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash had a telephone conversation. The officials discussed issues related to bilateral economic relations, including cooperation in the fields of energy and transport. The parties emphasized the need for quick implementation of joint projects, in particular, the new transit…
Ambassador of Russia to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin visited the Syunik province, the Embassy said in a press release. Accompanied by the leadership of the Border Guard Department of the Russian Federal Security Service in Armenia, the Ambassador paid tribute to the memory of the members of the crew of Mi-24 helicopter, who were killed on…
Turkey hopes that Armenia and Azerbaijan will soon reach an agreement and stable peace will be established in the South Caucasus, Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said in a speech in the country’s Parliament. “Following the principle of “one nation, two states”, we have always stood by our brothers for the sake of the…
The third meeting of the special representatives of Armenia and Turkey will take place in Vienna. This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in an interview with NTV. He did not specify a possible date for the meeting. At the same time, Cavusolu expressed the opinion that the talks between the special representatives…
Iran supports the territorial integrity of countries in the South Caucasus and thinks that any geopolitical change in that region could be dangerous, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali said at a press conference at the embassy on Wednesday, TASS reports. “Certainly, the issue of security and stability in the South Caucasus is very important…
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he hopes his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan will soon pay a visit to Russia. “Our dialogue continues. Ararat Mirzoyan has been invited to Russia. He has accepted the invitation. We are expecting him, I hope the visit takes place soon”, Lavrov said at a press conference.
Following a failed mutiny of the Wagner group in Russia, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have had a phone conversation, Kremlin reported on Monday,IRNA reports. During the phone call, the Iranian president reportedly voiced Tehran’s support for the measures taken by the Russian government to deal with the June…
A bipartisan group of US senators is urging Hungary to stop buying Russian energy ahead of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, Bloomberg reports. US lawmakers expressed concern that Hungary has shown “no signs of reducing its reliance on Russian fossil fuels” and called on Orbán and…
On the penultimate day of registration for Iran’s snap presidential election, former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was among the high-profile names to file their nomination. Ahmadinejad, who served as the country’s president for two consecutive four-year terms between 2005 and 2013, appeared at the election headquarters in Tehran on Sunday morning, flanked by close aides….
Vagif Khachatryan, abducted from an illegal Azerbaijani checkpoint on July 29, 2023, pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him in the Azerbaijani court and stated that he did not participate in any crime against Azerbaijanis. The trial in the case of Vagif Khachatryan, a resident of Nagorno-Karabakh, continues in the Yasamal District…
Reuters. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday would be the most intense day of strikes against Iran in the campaign so far. Speaking with reporters, Hegseth said Tuesday would bring the most fighter jets and bombers against Iran. Նյութերը գեներացվում են տարբեր կայքերից արհեստական բանականության միջոցով
Greenland’s prime minister announced on Tuesday that the semi-autonomous Danish territory will hold a general election on March 11 amid interest by U.S. President Donald Trump in acquiring the Arctic island, Reuters reports. The top issues in the election campaign are expected to be Greenland’s independence aspirations and relations with Denmark and the United…
Independent candidate for President of the United States Robert Kennedy made a video message in which he promised to use the American levers to return Armenians forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh and to promote self-determination. “Over a hundred years ago, during the World War I, the Ottoman Empire perpetrated the first genocide of the modern era,…
The minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania informed on his X (Twitter) account about the telephonic conversation he had with his Armenian counterpart, Ararat Mirzoyan. Gabrielius Landsbergis noted that during the conversation, he “expressed concern about the dire humanitarian consequences of the blocking of the Lachin corridor” by Azerbaijan. “Crucial to ensure unimpeded…
At least five people were killed after an explosion occurred at the Rocket and Explosive Factory of the Machinery and Chemical Industry (MKE) in the Elmadag district of Ankara, Turkey, Tasnim reports. According to the first information received, the explosion occurred after the fire in the factory in the morning. It was reported that…
The new Chinese minister of foreign affairs in a phone talk with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian invited him to have an official visit to China, IRNA reports. The Iranian foreign minister in his Thursday evening phone talk with Chin Gang, the new Chinese foreign minister congratulated the Chinese New Year and spring season celebration…
Apart from a number of statements and videos, the fact of the use of phosphorus weapons by Azerbaijan during the 44-day war was also confirmed by an expert examination (Statement of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh): https://t.ly/gSTR ). This was stated in the Facebook post of Artsakh Human Rights Defender Gegham…
On International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we honor those unjustly taken and denied their rights, the statement on Armenia’s Foreign Ministry’s X reads. “Armenia knows the deep pain of enforced disappearances and remains committed to seeking justice for all victims and their families,” Foreign Ministry states.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States would “always” stand by the NATO military alliance, amid alarm among European allies over his stated aim of controlling Greenland, DPA reports. “We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us,” Trump wrote on his social media…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia expressed its deep condolences to the people of Afghanistan in connection with the devastating earthquake in the west of the country on its X microblog (formerly Twitter). “Our deep sympathy to the Afghani people affected by the devastating earthquake that hit the Western Provinces…
