US Secretary of State Blinken issued a statement regarding the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations. “This week I hosted Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenia Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan for bilateral peace negotiations at the George P. Schultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center. After an intensive and constructive series of bilateral and trilateral discussions, the parties…
Reuters. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday (July 7) the United States would send more weapons to Ukraine, primarily defensive ones, to help the war-torn country defend itself against intensifying Russian advances. Washington’s decision to halt some weapons shipments to Kyiv prompted it to warn the move would crimp its ability to fend…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is privately telling confidants that JD Vance is the frontrunner for the 2028 Republican nomination and that he’d support the vice president if he chose to run, according to two people close to the administration, Politico reports. Rubio’s private comments are a vivid example of how some Republicans are…
Vedant Patel, Deputy Spokesman of the US State Department, spoke about Armenia-Azerbaijan relations at the meeting with journalists, as well as the negotiations between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan scheduled for today in Brussels. He once again confirmed that the United States is committed to promoting a secure, stable, democratic, prosperous, and peaceful future…
Reuters. Turkey and Ukraine signed a deal on Thursday (August 18) to reconstruct infrastructure damaged in Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported as their leaders Tayyip Erdogan and Volodymyr Zelenskiy met in Lviv. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday (August 17), met with Zelenskiy and…
“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…
An Istanbul court on Friday issued arrest warrants for 37 suspects, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza and against the Global Sumud Flotilla vessel that was seized in October, Anadolu reports. The warrants were issued upon the request of the Istanbul chief public prosecutor’s…
Three people died and five were injured in Indonesia after protesters set fire to a regional parliament building, authorities said on Saturday (August 30), as demonstrations pose the first major test to President Prabowo Subianto’s government. The Southeast Asian nation’s disaster management agency, in a statement, did not give the causes of the deaths…
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday (July 5) the negotiations on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran known as the JCPOA needed to succeed while taking into account the interests of regional partners, including Israel, Reuters reports. “We have to defend this deal, take into account security interests of our friends in…
As a result of joint inspections conducted on May 21–27, 2026, at four Armenian fish farming enterprises by the Food Safety Inspectorate of the Republic of Armenia and the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of the Russian Federation (Rosselkhoznadzor), the import of products from two Armenian companies — MF Export LLC and Invest…
Maduro landed Saturday evening at a small airport in New York following the middle-of-the-night operation that extracted him and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their home in a military base in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas, Euronews reports. Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has arrived in the United States and was brought to the Metropolitan…
Ukraine may resume talks with Russia from a strengthened position at the end of August after counteroffensives are conducted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in certain areas. The relevant statement was made by David Arakhamia, the Head of the Ukrainian delegation and the Leader of the Servant of the People Faction, in a…
On May 27, Foreign Minister of Hungary Péter Szijjártó will pay a working visit to Armenia, Armenia’s Foreign Minsitry Spokesperson Ani Badalyan stated. Minister Szijjártó will participate in a panel discussion within the framework of the “Yerevan Dialogue” forum. A meeting with Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan is scheduled. The “Yerevan…
Ahead of the presidential elections in Turkey, the united opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu appealed to the current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Fox TV. “I want to tell Erdogan that we are going to elections, not to war. Turkey should be the only winner in the elections. Both the opposition and the government perform their…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that the country’s authorities must review their behavior and actions towards citizens to prevent foreign forces from interfering, Tasnim News reported. “Recent experience has shown that arch-enemies, including the Zionist regime and its Western sponsors, are constantly trying to provoke and divide Iran. They have tried to turn the…
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has cautioned the European Union states against providing military assistance to Armenia, Interfax reports. Bayramov met with Marketa Pekarova Adamova, president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, on Friday. According to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Bayramov said that “Azerbaijan is a reliable partner of the EU…
It sounds good when we talk about connectivity, international trade and transit, deepening cultural and people-to-people communication. From an economic point of view, increased interconnectedness and interdependence will be beneficial. Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan stated at the Diplomacy Forum in Antalya. “My country, Armenia, is a landlocked country, and we understand very well…
Turkey is discussing re-opening a border crossing into Syrian government territory, a Turkish official said on Friday, enabling earthquake aid to be sent directly to areas under President Bashar al-Assad’s control after a decade of enmity, Reuters reports. It is also looking at opening another crossing into Syria’s opposition-held Idlib region, the official said. Turkey…
U.S. Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Representatives Jim Costa (D-CA), and Brad Sherman (D-CA) were joined by a bipartisan group of U.S. House lawmakers in calling on the Biden Administration to take immediate measures to prevent an Azerbaijani invasion of Armenia. “The opportunity to prevent further aggression by Azerbaijani forces and an…
Roskomnadzor has announced a “partial restriction” on calls made through the Telegram and WhatsApp messaging platforms, according to RIA Novosti. The agency explained the decision as necessary “to counter criminals, based on materials from law enforcement agencies.” “According to law enforcement and numerous citizen complaints, the foreign messengers Telegram and WhatsApp have become the…
The Azerbaijani government is increasing the defense and national security expenditures by 1.105 billion manats ($650 million), including spending on special defense projects and measures by 1 billion manats ($0.59 billion), the Azerbaijani Finance Ministry reports. After the increase, the spending on special defense projects and measures will reach 3.07 billion manats ($1.22 billion).
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian urged OPEC members to unite against possible U.S. sanctions, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would seek to drive Tehran’s oil exports to zero, Reuters reports. “I believe that if OPEC members are united and work together, the U.S. would not be able to sanction and pressure one of…
“Welcome the 3rd trilateral meeting hosted by European Council President Charles Michel with Armenia and Azerbaijan leaders in Brussels. Hopeful to see concrete steps that support dynamics towards sustainable peace. The EU continues to be strongly engaged in peace and reconciliation efforts in the region”, Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign…
Eight days Lachin corridor is closed by Azerbaijan, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan wrote on his Twitter. “People of Nagorno-Karabakh are stuck on the roads in the cold, families are finding themselves in different sides of the blockade. Citizens with serious health problems are deprived of medicine and health service,” Pashinyan tweeted.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and US President Donald Trump discussed the security situation in Greenland and the Arctic in a phone call on Sunday. “We will continue working on this, and I look forward to seeing him in Davos later this week,” Rutte said in a post on US social media company X….
The Prime Minister of Georgia and the President of Azerbaijan met during the Antalya Diplomacy Forum. Irakli Kobakhidze and Ilham Aliyev emphasized the friendly and strategic nature of the relations between the two countries. They touched upon the expansion of cooperation in trade, economic, cultural and other spheres. It was noted that the…
American actor, film director and producer Mel Gibson condemns Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, calling out media silence and demanding swift international action to protect and save Armenians. “History tragically repeats itself as we witness a modern-genocide unfolding”, Gibson said in a video message. “The Armenian people who have endured centuries of persecution…
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today unanimously passed a motion, introduced by Supervisor Lindsey Horvath and co-authored by Supervisor Kathryn Barger, Asbarez reports. The motion condemns Azerbaijan’s extensive war crimes, crimes against humanity, and violations of the basic human rights of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh in its genocidal campaign against the Armenian…
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…
The Armenia-Russia-Azerbaijan deputy prime ministerial working group dealing with the unblocking of all economic and transportation communications in the region has managed to bring their positions closer around the resumption of transportation communications, Alexey Zaitsev, the deputy director of the information and press department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said. He said that the trilateral…
