The Russian peacekeeping troops recorded one violation of the ceasefire regime in Askeran region, Nagorno-Karabakh. There were no casualties. This is stated in the official bulletin of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. “The command of the Russian peacekeeping troops is conducting an investigation on the facts together with the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides,” the…
Reuters. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday (July 29) slammed Sweden over the burning of a Koran in Stockholm and said Turkey would never bow down to a policy of provocation or threat. “We will teach the arrogant Western people that it is not freedom of expression to insult the sacred values of Muslims,”…
Turkey conveyed to Armenia its ideas for the restoration of the historical bridge of Ani. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia in response to the written request of ‘Sputnik Armenia’. “The Turkish side has conveyed to Armenia its ideas on organizing the technical process of the…
Turkey summoned Sweden’s ambassador to Ankara on Thursday (January 12), a diplomatic source said, over a demonstration in Stockholm in which a puppet of President Tayyip Erdogan was hung from its feet, Reuters reports. Sweden has been seeking Turkey’s approval to join NATO, for which it applied after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. Ankara…
Ukrainian naval drones hit two sanctioned tankers in the Black Sea as the vessels headed to a Russian port to load up with oil destined for foreign markets, the Ukrainian government said, while Russia unleashed an air barrage on Kyiv overnight, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. The attacks come as President Volodymyr Zelensky’s negotiating…
The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov believes that today’s negotiations with Armenia will contribute to the peace process. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, at today’s meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Murat Nurtleu, expressed confidence that today’s negotiations will contribute to the process amid recent agreement reached between the delimitation commissions. Speaking about the…
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili held a phone conversation with his Turkish colleague Hakan Fidan, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. According to the Georgian Foreign Ministry, the two FMs underscored their readiness to strengthen strategic partnership between Turkey and Georgia. Ilia Darchiashvili thanked his Turkish counterpart for support of Georgia’s territorial integrity and the…
A chair was spotted flying off a high rise building in the capital Ankara during a storm on May 17. In the footage showing the moments of chair flying, the furniture hits another building, the Demirören News Agency reported. Due to the wind, which reached 45 kilometers per hour, many trees fell and roofs…
A guard has been killed in an armed attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Iran’s capital Tehran, the country’s foreign ministry has said, Al Jazeera reports. “The attacker broke through the guard post, killing the head of security with a Kalashnikov assault rifle,” it said. Friday’s attack has also injured two people, the ministry added. An…
At least 247 suspects have been arrested in investigations into building collapses in southern Turkey in connection with the Feb. 6 earthquakes, according to judicial sources, Anadolu reports. They include 93 contractors, 123 building supervisors and 13 owners, the sources said. However, 322 suspects are being monitored under judicial control, including 78 contractors, 177 building…
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of targeting civilian homes in overnight air attacks, killing four people in the capital and two in the east, as fighting between the two neighbours entered its third week, overshadowed by the United States-Israel war on Iran igniting the Middle East, Al Jazeera reports. Women and children were…
The Spanish El País newspaper published an article on the latest Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia, highlighting the fact that Azerbaijan attacked the internationally recognized territories of Armenia. In the article titled “Armenia condemns the execution of prisoners of war by Azerbaijani troops”, El País noted that the EU Special Representative in South Caucasus has called…
Pope Francis on Sunday (1 October) urged dialogue on both sides of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia to end the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. ”I renew my call for dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia, hoping that talks between the parties, with the support of the international community, will foster a lasting agreement that…
The ICRC is doing a tremendous job in very challenging circumstances on the ground, Toivo Klaar, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, tweeted. “It is important that they are able to operate freely. The EU is taking their warnings seriously,” he added. The International Committee of the Red Cross…
On the territory of the Republic of Armenia there are closed, impassable roads. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, roads leading from the Amberd high-mountain weather station to the Amberd fortress and Lake Kari are closed in the Aragatsotn region. The Vardenyats pass is closed for trucks with trailers, and passage for other vehicles…
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin and Azerbaijani Ambassador to Moscow Rakhman Mustafayev discussed the air crash near Aktau and stressed that it is necessary to complete the official probe and announce its results, the Russian foreign ministry said, TASS reports. “The sides discussed the topic of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash near the…
Toivo Klaar, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Georgia Crisis, referred to the normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations at the 2nd anniversary event of the RA-EU Comprehensive and Extended Partnership Agreement organized at Armenia’s Embassy to Belgium. “Thank you Ambassador Anna Aghajanyan for hosting celebration of the second anniversary of Armenia – EU CEPA….
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…
Member of Parliament Gevorg Papoyan has dismissed as “unreasonable” the statements made by Azerbaijani authorities about the need for guarantees ruling out possible revanchism in order to sign a peace treaty. Papoyan, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs, said that signing a peace treaty in itself would mean that no…
A possible comprehensive peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia is essential for ensuring lasting peace and security in the South Caucasus, Turkish Minister of National Defense Yasar Guler said on the sidelines of the multinational EFES-2024 exercise. Guler stated that Ankara welcomes the ongoing peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia. “Turkish President Recep…
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says several institutions and individuals from the European Union will be included in the Islamic Republic’s blacklist of sanctions, days after some European countries imposed a set of bans on the country under false pretexts, ParsToday reports. “In the coming days, the names of several institutions and individuals from the…
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…
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…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Catholicos Aram I and wrote about it on his Twitter. “The Armenian Canadian community is strong and vibrant – and when His Holiness Catholicos Aram I and I met today, we spoke about that. We also spoke about the atrocities committed during the Armenian genocide, and our…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed New Delhi for Moscow on Monday (July 8), on his first trip to Russia since the war in the Ukraine in February 2022, Reuters reports. On his 2-day visit, Modi is set to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of annual summits between New Delhi…
A protest rally against the bill On Transparency of Foreign Influence continues on Rustaveli Avenue at the Georgian parliament, 1tv.ge reports. The participants claim that, if passed, the law will obstruct Georgia’s EU integration process and keep rallying at all entrances of the parliament hitting their hands on the iron fences. Some protesters arrived…
A SU-25 jet of the Georgian Defense Forces involved in an aviation component of the planned military training crashed on July 2 killing pilot Kakhaber Zurabishvili, Georgian Defense Ministry reported. According to the Ministry, relevant services probe into the tragic incident, 1tv.ge reported. “The Ministry expresses deep sorrow over the tragic incident and…
Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo vehemently opposing the Commerce Department’s apparent plans to consider granting a license to permit the export of rifles – possibly including assault-style or sniper semiautomatic rifles – to Azerbaijan, reports the Armenian Assembly of…
This is another manifestation of the attempt to pull the countries of the South Caucasus into the zone of the Euro-Atlantic alliance. Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated this in a press briefing Wednesday and commenting on NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s visits to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia….
The masks are torn, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) no longer has a place in Azerbaijan, that’s how the assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Hikmet Hajiyev, responded to the continued support of the agency’s head, Samantha Power, to Armenia. Hajiyev blamed the United States for standing by Armenia and not supporting…
