Washington and Ankara are committed to close cooperation in resolving current geopolitical issues. This is stated in a joint statement issued by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu following a meeting of the US-Turkish Strategic Mechanism in New York on May 18. “Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Cavusoglu intend…
The Armenian Ministry of Defense has refuted a fresh disinformation by the Azerbaijani side. “The statement of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan claiming that last night units of the Armenian Armed Forces fired from different caliber firearms at the Azerbaijani military positions located in the eastern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is disinformation,” the…
Georgia’s application for European Union membership, as well as the progress made by the country in implementing the 2014 EU-Georgia Association Agreement and related democratic reforms were discussed on Tuesday in a meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and the President of the European Council Charles Michel, agenda.ge reports. The meeting focused on…
The office of Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan informs ‘Lurer’ that according to the preliminary agreement, the meeting of the trilateral working group co-chaired by the Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan will take place this month. The exact date is being agreed.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held telephone talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry. “Our minister today had telephone conversations with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg,” the source said, without specifying the details of the conversation. Earlier, Turkish President Recep…
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addressed the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). He pointed out the inactivity of the organization during the invasion of the territory of Armenia by the Azerbaijani armed forces, which took place on May 12, 2021. “Last year, these days, Azerbaijani troops invaded Armenia. Armenia applied to the…
The President of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda will pay visits to Armenia and Azerbaijan on May 18–20, the President’s Office reports. On May 18, Gitanas Nausėda will meet with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The Presidents will discuss bilateral co-operation in the fields of energy and economy, the security situation in the Caucasus…
Donald Wilson Bush, President of the Woodrow Wilson Legacy Foundation and the Armenian National Association, respectively, and the Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of HYECoin Inc. was invited by the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem to address the members of St. James Brotherhood on certain matters in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. During the Easter…
NATO member Turkey has proposed carrying out a sea evacuation of wounded fighters holed up in a steel works in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said on Saturday, Alarabiya News reports. İbrahim Kalın told Reuters in an interview that he had personally discussed the proposal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…
A group of activists of the Democratic Movement of Azerbaijan held a protest rally in Baku on May 14 against threats of growing violence against public figures and journalists. The action was held under the slogan ‘We do not want a mafia state’. Most of the organizers of the protest were arrested before the start…
Armenia’s Ambassador-at-large Edmon Marukyan has publicized the six-point proposals of the Armenian side for the normalization of the relations with Azerbaijan. The first point says the Armenian side is responding to a letter dated February 21, but handed over to the Armenian side on March 11, Marukyan said in an interview with Public TV. The second point says the Republic…
The Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan held a meeting in Dushanbe today. The process of implementation of the commitments undertaken by the trilateral statements of November 9, 2020, January 11 and November 26, 2021 was discussed. They exchanged views on the agreement on unblocking of regional communications and economic ties, demarcation, establishment of…
President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to Armenia could take place in between October-December of 2022 and the trip will be a state visit, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said. Speaking at a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Tajikistan, the Armenian FM said that now the details and exact timeframes…
The Biden administration has informally reached out to the U.S. Congress to seek approval for a proposed sale of missiles and equipment upgrades to NATO ally Turkey, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The weapons package was an existing request by Ankara, and includes AIM-120 medium-range air-to-air and sidewinder missiles, as well as…
Moscow by no means wishes to see a war in Europe, while the West keeps talking about the need for defeating Russia over Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference on Wednesday following talks with his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Al Busaidi, TASS reports. “We are greatly worried…
The Kherson Region government plans to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the region a part of Russia, the deputy head of the regional military and civilian administration, Kirill Stremousov, said at a news conference on Wednesday, TASS reports. “The referendum, which was absolutely legally held in Crimea, was not recognized by the world…
During his visit to Lebanon, High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan met with His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Lebanese Republic, Vahagn Atabekyan, was also present at the meeting Issues and programs related to the Armenia-Diaspora cooperation were…
There is no legal ground that at any time any de-jure Azerbaijani enclave has existed in the territory of Armenia, Armenia’s Ambassador at-large Edmon Marukyan told Armenpress when asked to respond to the Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov’s statements. Question: The Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Khalafov said that on April 6 in Brussels the…
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar called for restrained optimism in the purchase of F-16 fighter jets from the United States. “It’s a long process. Will it have a positive end? It’s possible. For sure? No. We are closely following the process,” Akar said in an interview with a Turkish TV channel. Earlier, the Turkish Defense…
Justice Minister Rati Bregadze said today the Government will offer jailed former President Mikheil Saakashvili a transfer to the private clinic Vivamedi to prevent any “possible complications” to his health. The development comes amid concerns about the worsening condition of the ex-President’s health, with calls mounting on the Georgian Dream Government to transfer Saakashvili for…
Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine, holding a surprise Mother’s Day meeting with first lady Olena Zelenska to show U.S. support for the people of Ukraine, ABC News reports. She became the latest high-profile American to enter Ukraine during the special military operation while Zelenska’s public appearance was her first since the conflict….
The European Union’s Iran nuclear talks coordinator Enrique Mora is to visit Tehran on Tuesday, the semi-official agency Nour News reported on Saturday, as the bloc said it was seeking to break a deadlock and save the 2015 accord, Reuters reports. Talks to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers have been on hold…
Davit Muradyan and Assita Kanko, Member of the European Parliament, discussed her support to the recognition process of the Armenian Genocide, approach by the European parliament to the issue, Azerbaijan’s approach to the EP resolutions, and Turkey’s destructive stance in several regions.
A deliberate crime by an Azerbaijani truck against an Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) civilian car driving on a road of Martakert region. Artak Beglaryan, State Minister of Artsakh tweeted. “The victims of this crime were Tumo center employees in their mission of collecting more rural children for better education. P.S. as a result of the incident by…
Georgia plans to submit its response to the second part of the EU membership questionnaire on May 10, Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili announced today. Following the submission, the European Commission will begin preparing its opinion on Georgia’s membership application, the top diplomat said. “Our government expects that Georgia will have concrete, tangible results,” the Foreign…
Moscow referred to the domestic political events in Armenia. “Russia is interested in the stable, secure and peaceful development of the allied country”, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Alexei Zaitsev announced during the weekly briefing. “The Russian side thinks that all the issues should be regulated exclusively in the legal-constitutional field, in accordance with democratic procedures”,…
The Council of Europe (CoE) issued the Secretary General’s 25th consolidated report on the conflict in Georgia, reviewing the security and human rights situation in the Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia for the period between October 2021 – March 2022. The document said that during the reporting period concerns remained over the human rights situation…
The developments in Armenia are the internal affair of the country, but Moscow is interested in the soonest settlement of the situation, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told. “This is entirely an internal affair of Armenia,” Peskov said, referring to opposition rallies in the country. He stressed that Yerevan is an ally of Moscow. “Armenia is…
During online consultations with the Abkhaz “foreign ministry,” attended by the region’s top diplomat Inal Ardzinba and Sokhumi-based reporters, Russian Foreign Ministry (MID) spokesperson Maria Zakharova spoke of Georgia’s sovereignty, Geneva International Discussions, as well as her memories from Abkhazia, among others. On Georgia’s Sovereignty Maria Zakharova said, “we treat Georgia as a sovereign state,…
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…
