US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Spokesman for the Department of State Ned Price said in a statement. “Secretary Blinken welcomed a halt to recent hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He urged President Aliyev to adhere to the ceasefire, disengage military forces, and work to resolve all…
Reuters. The first French Mirage 2000 fighter jets arrived on Thursday (February 6) in Ukraine, French Defence minister Sébastien Lecornu wrote on social media platform X. Paris delivered the first batch on Thursday after Ukrainian pilots have been training in France in recent months, Lecornu added. The fighter jets, manufactured by Dassault Aviation,…
Reuters. The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives early on Friday (July 18) passed President Donald Trump’s $9 billion funding cut to public media and foreign aid, sending it to the White House to be signed into law. The chamber voted 216 to 213 in favor of the funding cut package, altered by the Senate…
Reuters. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on Wednesday (June 4) he met U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington D.C. during his visit there. Yermak told reporters after meetings in Washington, that it is “very important” that Ukraine wins the war. The meetings came on the same…
Reuters. At least nine people were reported killed and a number of others injured in a shooting at a school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday (June 10), the city’s mayor said. Graz Mayor Elke Kahr, quoted by Austrian news agency APA, said many injured had also been taken to hospital…
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar. The Prime Minister praised the Armenia-EU partnership, highly appreciating the efforts of the EU and European Council President Charles Michel for regional stability. In the context of regional peace and the peaceful settlement of…
Matthew Miller, U.S. State Department Spokesperson referred to the possibility of another meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers or leaders in the USA. Asked whether the State Secretary Antony Blinken is hoping to put together another meeting in New York, Miller said: “I don’t have any announcements to make. Obviously we always look…
The German Foreign Ministry has summarized the meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Berbock and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, which took place yesterday in Berlin. Aliyev was in Germany to attend the high-level meeting of the 15th St. Petersburg Climate Dialogue and was also received by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. …
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, Kremlin reports. “Current issues on the Russian-Iranian agenda were reviewed with an emphasis on the need to continue scaling up bilateral cooperation across the board. In particular, the presidents spoke in favour of consistently implementing mutually…
Despite a recent rise in Iran’s oil revenues, U.S. sanctions that have gutted revenues and dramatically worsened economic hardships for ordinary people continue to have a major impact on daily life, stirring discontent. Iranians from the business elite to lower-income families face soaring inflation, a sinking currency and rising unemployment. The official inflation rate is…
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis welcomed Armenia’s efforts to continue the path of democratic reforms, the country’s resilience and strengthening relations with Europe during his meeting with Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan, Lithuanian Foreign Ministry reports. During the meeting, the prospects for deepening bilateral relations, the security situation in the region and the importance of supporting…
Аzerbaijan’s ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) led by President Ilham Aliyev won majority in in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday, Azerbaijani media reported. According to preliminary results, the ruling party will hold about 68 seats in a 125-seat Parliament. A total of 44 independent candidates have been elected. In a nation with approximately…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze met James C. O’Brien, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, 1tv.ge reports. According to the Government Administration, at the long and sincere meeting, the conversation touched on all issues of Georgian-American relations, including the processes developed in Georgia over the past few years. The…
Iran has the technical capability to produce an atomic bomb but has no intention of doing so, Mohammad Eslami, head of the country’s atomic energy organisation, said on Monday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency, Reuters reports. Eslami reiterated comments made by Kamal Kharrazi, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in…
The White House said on Wednesday (July 31) it does not see an escalation of conflict as inevitable following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and the U.S. is still working to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Speaking at a daily briefing, White House national security spokesperson John…
In the aftermath of catastrophic flooding in eastern Spain, residents in Alfafar, a suburb outside the city of Valencia, faced scarcity as they navigated muddy roads and struggle to access water and basic supplies on Friday (November 1), Reuters reports. Footage showed various vehicles in a tangled wreckage strewn across rail tracks and a…
Defeated US Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has urged her supporters to accept Donald Trump’s White House victory, while telling them to “never give up” fighting for their ideals, BBC reports. At a concession speech in Washington DC, the US vice-president acknowledged “the outcome of this election is not what we wanted”, but insisted there…
Reuters. Hundreds of supporters of populist Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr broke into Iraq’s parliament on Wednesday (July 27) as the country reached 290 days without a government. Infighting among Shi’ite and Kurdish groups in particular has prevented the formation of a government, hampering reforms needed as the country struggles to recover from decades of…
Israeli fighter jets have delivered strikes on military targets of the Lebanon-based Shiite party Hezbollah, the press service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported, TASS reports. “Throughout the night, IDF fighter jets struck Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon, including a Hezbollah military structure in the area of Aitaroun, as well as Hezbollah…
A joint urgent debate on the political consequences of war in Ukraine and on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics, will be a highlight of the Summer plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg on 19-23 June 2023, PACE press office reports….
The overseas voting process for Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections begins on April 27, BIANET reports. The elections will take place on May 14 in Turkey. Voting in 73 countries and 156 locations abroad will end on May 9. The voting process at customs gates for those registered in the overseas election registry will…
After a dramatic six-hour long standoff with security, South Korean police have called off an attempt to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol, BBC reports. The 150 officers involved found themselves helplessly outnumbered – first by the large number of pro-Yoon supporters who had gathered outside his residence before sunrise, and then by a…
Beijing and Moscow have entered the most successful period of inter-state relations characterized by the highest level of mutual trust and the greatest strategic significance, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui told TASS in a special interview on Wednesday. “Under the strategic direction of [China’s] Chairman Xi Jinping and President [of Russia Vladimir] Putin, the…
On August 30, the second session of the Commission on delimitation and Border Security of the State Border between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan and the State Commission on the delimitation of the State Border between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan was held in Moscow, chaired by…
On August 3, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan received the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk. Ararat Mirzoyan presented to Andrzej Kasprzyk the security situation that unfolded in the region during the last few days. Minister Mirzoyan condemned the arbitrary interpretation of trilateral statements and attempts to destabilize the situation by Azerbaijan,…
Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn posted on his Twitter microblog about the telephone conversation with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan. “During my phone call with my Armenian colleague Ararat Mirzoyan we discussed the worsening humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Luxembourg calls on Azerbaijan to guarantee safety and freedom of movement along the Lachin corridor, in…
Reuters. The Kremlin said on Tuesday (July 15) that U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent statements, including a threat of sanctions on buyers of Russian exports, are serious and require analysis. In a major policy shift underscoring his growing frustration with President Vladimir Putin, Trump on Monday announced new deliveries of weapons to Ukraine and…
Azerbaijan is always ready to contribute to peace at regional and global levels, said Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov during the joint press conference after the meeting with his Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen, Azerbaijani media report. According to the minister, Azerbaijan is always ready to contribute to peace, stability, and dialogue at the…
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin believes that the expansion of the EU civil mission in Armenia will increase tensions in the South Caucasus. “The very appearance of this mission in Armenia is an absolutely useless step in terms of promoting the Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization. We are convinced that the expansion of the EU mission…
SANA. An earthquake of 6 magnitude on Richter scale hit Liwa Iskandarun area distancing 52 km to the west of Idleb at 8.4 p.m. local time. National Earthquake Center told SANA that the quake is one of the aftershocks of the main earthquake that hit the area on February 6th, 2023. The center…
