On March 2, on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with Helga Schmid, the OSCE Secretary General. The interlocutors discussed issues of cooperation between Armenia and the OSCE, including the implementation of particular projects. Regional issues were touched…
Canada’s deputy prime minister and minister of finance has resigned amid growing tensions with the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, over the looming threat posed by Donald Trump’s “America First” economic nationalism, The Guardian reports. Chrystia Freeland stood down on Monday, just hours before she was due to release the country’s first economic plan ahead…
Bujar Osmani, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia, twitted about his meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. “Comprehensive discussion with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Overcoming humanitarian and security challenges is a clear priority. OSCE stands ready to step up support to implementing crucial reforms & projects to bring…
The work on the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan can be completed already this year. Toivo Klaar, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, on Friday stated this at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey, and adding that the EU is engaged in the process of establishing stability and…
Prsident of Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, The Kremlin reports. The two leaders discussed the issues pertaining to practical implementation of the agreements that the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia reached in Sochi on October 31, 2022, as well as the previous top-level…
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna will visit Armenia this week, the French Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday. Colonna will be traveling to Azerbaijan and Armenia on April 26-28. The visit “will reiterate France’s commitment to support the negotiations between the two countries for a fair and lasting peace based on principles of international law…
Based on Armenia’s request and at the initiative of France, the UN Security Council held a discussion on the aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against our country. During the discussion, the representatives of the permanent and temporary member states of the Security Council, as well as Armenia and Azerbaijan, made speeches. Miroslav Yencha, Assistant Secretary General…
Israeli airstrikes have killed 11 people in the central and northern Gaza Strip, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV channel reports. According to the broadcaster, six people were killed in Israeli attacks on a residential building and a group of civilians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Another airstrike targeted a private house…
EU welcomes the sustained engagement from Armenia and Azerbaijan FMs in 4 days of negotiations in Washington, Toivo Klaar, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, wrote on Twitter. “Encouraging news from Washington. Progress can only be made through dialogue. We continue to stand with Armenia and Azerbaijan and work…
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 European Union Mission to Armenia briefly presented its activities on the X page. “Around the clock, our patrols monitor the Armenian side of the border with Azerbaijan, committed to observing the situation on the ground and supporting stability in the region,” the statement on X reads. Նյութերը գեներացվում են տարբեր կայքերից արհեստական բանականության միջոցով
The parliamentary delegation of Georgia holds meetings in Kyiv. The group, headed by Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, includes eight deputies, including representatives of the opposition. On his Twitter, Papuashvili commented on the visit: “I arrived in Kyiv together with my fellow deputies from Georgia to convey a message to Georgia: we share your grief, Georgia…
Toivo Klaar, the European Union (EU) Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin, Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, and Markus Ritter, head of the EU monitoring mission in Armenia, have met in a Yerevan café. The EU mission informed about this on Twitter. They exchanged…
Syria’s Damascus airport will start operating international flights from Jan. 7, Syrian Civil Aviation Authority chief Ashad Al Saliby told Syrian state news agency Sana on Saturday (January 4), Reuters reports. Employees were seen by Reuters preparing Damascus International Airport on December 14 to resume operations after the airport had been closed on December…
Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish leader expressed condolences over the death of former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and noted his significant role in the contemporary history of Russia and the entire world, the Kremlin reports. The leaders discussed further progress of the multifaceted…
French President Emmanuel Macron has reflected on his discussions with European leaders and the Ukrainian President regarding the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska. “Coordination meeting this morning with President Trump, President Zelensky, and my European partners following the meeting between President Trump and President Putin in Alaska. At the conclusion of this meeting, we…
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili says that state borders should be tightly controlled given the possible new wave of migrants from Russia, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. “Monitoring closely the events unfolding in Russia. Our border has to be tightly controlled in view of possible new waves of migration,” President tweeted. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a bombastic…
Azerbaijan continues to illegally close the Lachin Corridor and does not allow humanitarian aid allocated by Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh to reach the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, where there is a serious humanitarian crisis due to Azerbaijan’s complete blockade of the corridor. In a conversation with journalists on July 31, Vardan Sargsyan, a representative of the working…
NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday backed U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments this week that NATO member countries should shoot down Russian drones and airplanes if they enter their airspace, if such a move was necessary, Reuters reports. “If so necessary. So I totally agree here with President Trump: if so necessary,” Rutte…
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in a phone call Saturday, marking the first direct communication between the leaders, Raisi’s deputy chief of staff said in a post on X. It is noted that the Iranian President Raisi congratulated Sisi on his re-election. The leaders discussed recent developments in…
Chair of the Security and Defense Subcommittee of the European Parliament, Nathalie Loiseau, who visited Armenia, arrived in Sisia to participate in the planned patrol of the EU mission to the Lachin Corridor. “Head of EU Mission in Armenia Markus Ritter and Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin welcomed Member of…
Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium has more than doubled, the country’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami told lawmakers in Tehran on Saturday, Iran International reports. Eslami referred to a parliament bill passed in December 2020 that required the government to increase high-level enrichment of uranium, demanding that the United States lift all sanctions. Praising the…
Syria’s foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and held discussions on expanding “strategic cooperation in the military industries sector”, Syrian state media has reported. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said that Putin’s meeting on Tuesday with Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani and Minister of Defence…
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a phone call on Saturday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. That’s according to Erdogan’s press service, Ukrinform reports. The parties discussed the Russo-Ukrainian war, as well as a conflict between Israel and Palestine and the humanitarian crisis in the region. “Stating that it is possible…
In a big move to further partnership, the United States signed a 10-year Defence Framework with India on Friday, announced Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, saying that the two countries’ “defence ties have never been stronger,” Hindustan Times reports. Hegseth took to X and said he met the Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh and…
At a plenary session on October 6, the Spanish Congress of Deputies adopted a statement expressing solidarity with the Armenian people in light of the Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia shortly after midnight on September 13, which left over 200 Armenian soldiers killed. In the statement the Congress reaffirmed its intolerance towards military operations that represent…
Philip Reeker, Senior Adviser for Caucasus Negotiations of the US State Department, released a video message from Yerevan. “It’s a pleasure being in Yerevan again. My second visit and my current capacity as the Senior Adviser for Caucasus Negotiations at the US Department of State. As in my previous visits, I remain inspired by Armenians’…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov begins a two-day visit to Turkey on Thursday at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu. He is expected to hold talks on a wide range of issues, including energy matters, the situation in Ukraine, the implementation of the grain deal, as well as measures to normalize the…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Sunday said his Government “would not allow” the country’s involvement in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict through opening the “second front” for Russia until in office, agenda.ge reports. In his interview with Imedi TV he wished “all the people” who were fighting in Ukraine against Russia a “peaceful return” to…
Ani Badalyan, Spokesperson of MFA of Armenia referred to the latest wave of armenophobia in Azerbaijan. “Instead of addressing rights and security of Nagorno Karabakh people, Azerbaijan continues aggressive propaganda of ethnic cleansing: two videos on new “Revenge 3” operation against NK by state TV, online poll where 83% to say “yes” to it….
