US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held out hope on Friday for a diplomatic resolution to restore the landmark 2015 nuclear deal world power struck with Tehran, but offered a grim assessment on the current situation. Blinken maintained that the US has an abiding interest in Iran’s nuclear program returning to the constraints imposed by…
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that Beijing is opposed to the imposition of unilateral sanctions in circumvention of the UN and international law. Thus, the diplomat commented on the imposition of sanctions by the European Union (EU) against Iran, TASS reports. Wenbin stressed that the PRC calls on all parties to contribute to the diplomatic…
Turkey can buy and transport Russian oil without Western financing or insurance, Turkish Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati said, Tasnim News Agency reports. If necessary, Turkey can buy and transport Russian oil without Western financing or insurance, Nebati in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, adding that “in case of any sanctions, Turkey has all…
On October 21, the RA NA President Alen Simonyan received the European Parliament’s Standing Rapporteur on Armenia Andrey Kovatchev. The NA President, in the person of the guest, expressed his gratitude to the European Parliament for adopting relevant resolutions and reports in favour of Armenia. At the meeting, the issues of the anti-Armenian rhetoric consistently…
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was asked a question regarding the nuclear program at the press conference with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in Yerevan, on what stage are the negotiations with the West. “During the last days and weeks, we exchanged messages with the American side, we also received messages, we also had…
Following the decision by the European Union to deploy monitoring experts along the Armenian side of the international border with Azerbaijan, on 20 October, the EU Monitoring Capacity in Armenia became operational. Here are some facts about the mission. Why is the EU sending a Monitoring Capacity to Armenia? The EU Monitoring Capacity…
On October 20, Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir Abdollahian will pay an official visit to Armenia, Armenian Foreign Minisrty reports. On the same day, the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Iran will take place at the Foreign Ministry of Armenia. During the visit, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of…
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev criticized comments made by French president Emmanuel Macron during an interview with the channel France 2. According to Aliyev, the French government has erased Paris’s history of having a friendly and balanced attitude toward Baku. The French Foreign ministry was asked what is their reaction? “These comments in no way…
According to a statement released by the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Upper Paleolithic humans processed at least 43 species of plants in a cave in southern Armenia between 40,000 and 25,000 years ago, Archaeology reports. Andrew Kandel of the University of Tübingen said that an international team of researchers extracted plant…
NATO will soon supply Ukraine with hundreds of pieces of equipment to combat unmanned aerial vehicles. As NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, speaking at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, these are hundreds of active jamming stations. Earlier, Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said that the…
Turkey will create an international hub from which Russian gas can be supplied to Europe, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday, TASS reports. Erdogan was speaking in parliament at a meeting of the faction of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headed by him. “In Europe they are now dealing with the…
47 PACE deputies issued a written statement condemning the Azerbaijani aggression against the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, calling on Azerbaijan to immediately withdraw its troops from the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia and release all prisoners of war (POWs). Ruben Rubinyan, head of Armenia’s National Assembly (Parliament) delegation to the…
Does Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan consider meeting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu? A question was asked to the Armenian Foreign Minister during the press conference with Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huifeldt. At the press conference following the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Turkic States, Cavusoglu expressed his willingness to…
Armenian Prime Minister took Twitter to refer to the manipulations by Turkey and Azerbaijan on the term “corridor”. “Can anyone find any mention of a “corridor” referring to the territory of Armenia in the November 9 Trilateral statement? Of course no! Is there any mention of a “corridor” in the November 9 Trilateral statement?…
Seyed Abbas Mousavi, Ambassador of IRAN to Azerbaijan referred to the latest drills by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps near the Azerbaijani border. “The clear message of the drills by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the neighboring countries is peace, friendship and the consolidation of stable security and for the enemies, the declaration of…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands has published the answers of Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra to the written questions of one of the deputies, in which an attempt is still made to avoid pointing out Azerbaijan as an aggressor state under the guise of promoting peace, but a number of important points are…
The EU will send 40 monitoring experts to the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Vice President of the European Commission, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell informed this. “The EU is fully committed to contribute to sustainable peace in the South Caucasus. We are setting up a monitoring capacity along…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has launched a large-scale military drill in the northwestern region of Aras along the borders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Iran International reports. The IRGC on Monday kicked off its three-day military exercise — codenamed “IRGC Ground Force’s Might” — in areas striding the northern sectors of East Azarbaijan and Ardabil provinces….
Ukrainian and Turkish foreign ministers in a phone call on Saturday discussed the latest developments about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to Turkish diplomatic sources. Dmytro Kuleba also conveyed condolences to Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu over a blast at a coal mine in Turkey’s northern Bartin province that killed at least 40 miners, according to Turkish diplomatic…
Yerevan proposed to Baku to hold a committee session on border delimitation and border security issues in Brussels. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote about it on Twitter. “Armenia has proposed to Azerbaijan to hold a meeting of Commissions on delimitation and border with security on 31 October in Brussels,” Pashinyan wrote in his microblog.
On October 14, the regular session of the State Council for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of the Occupied Territories of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) was held under the chairmanship of Artsakh Republic State Minister Artak Beglaryan. “In a short period of time, the Council was able to effectively implement some of the…
The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, spoke with the leaders of the CIS countries about work and relations between the countries. The President said that the CIS partners are concerned about the development of relations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and he informs them in detail about the situation, but this does…
Turkey’s parliament on Thursday approved a tough pre-election law that could see reporters and social media users jailed for up to three years for spreading “fake news,” Agence France-Presse reported. The new rules cement the government’s already-firm grip on the media eight months before a general election that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan enters trailing in…
Lawmakers in Iraq have elected Kurdish politician Abdul Latif Rashid as the country’s new president, paving the way for the formation of a new government and ending a year of deadlock. He replaces fellow Iraqi Kurd Barham Saleh as head of state after the two-round vote in parliament on Thursday, winning more than 160…
US State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs issued a statement on the latest video of violence against Armenian POWs. “Deeply disturbed by new reports of violence against POWs during Sept 12-14 fighting. Full and impartial investigation must hold those responsible to account. Oct 4 return by Baku of 17 Armenian POWs was…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia could increase the capacity of its gas exports to Turkey and eventually turn into a hub for gas supplies to Europe. Moscow is ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via a link of the Germany-bound Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea. Putin said…
On October 12, 2022, the Human Rights Defender Ms. Kristinne Grigoryan gave a speech during the 83rd Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, during the online consideration of the 7th periodic report of Armenia….
Power supply to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has been restored, a member of the local military-civilian administration, leader of the movement We are together with Russia, Vladimir Rogov, said on Wednesday, TASS reports. “Normal power supply to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has been restored. Stand-by diesel generators had to be used for less…
Finland has secured the support of its NATO partners in case of a direct threat even before actually joining the alliance, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Wednesday, TASS reports. “Being in the ‘NATO waiting room’, we have received assurances of support from many major players: the US, the UK, key European countries,” Haavisto…
India and the UAE are exploring the creation of a mechanism for carrying out bilateral trade in national currencies, a statement from the Indian Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday. Piyush Goyal, India’s minister of commerce and trade, hopes that the discussions on “mutually beneficial” areas like food security and bilateral trade in national currencies…
