President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg on Monday in the capital Kyiv, where they discussed boosting Ukraine’s air defences and Kyiv buying weapons with European help. The meeting took place the day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would send Patriot air defence missiles to Ukraine and ahead…
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov will meet on Saturday, July 16. The meeting will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vahan Hunanyan informs. The Foreign Ministers last met in Dushanbe in Mid-May. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also participated in the meeting.
Poland does not currently plan to sever diplomatic relations with Russia, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Sept. 12 during a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha in Kyiv, Hromadske reported. His comments come days after Russian drones entered Polish airspace during a large-scale attack on Ukraine on Sept. 10. Poland…
Addressing the National Congress for the Commemoration of the 24,000 Martyrs from Tehran on Wednesday, Major General Hossein Salami dismissed US threats against Iran amid heightened tensions over the death of three American forces, IRNA reports. “We hear threatening words from American officials,” he said. “You have tested us and we know each other,…
As part of a visit to the US capital, Turkish Presidential Spokesman İbrahim Kalın held talks Tuesday with President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the White House and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland at the State Department, Anadolu reports. Kalın and the US officials discussed political and economic relations, last…
A peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia may be signed in the foreseeable future, but in the end, what matters most is not when it is inked but that all issues are resolved, Russian presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday, TASS reports. According to the Kremlin spokesman, representatives of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Anadolu reports. Fidan and Araghchi discussed bilateral and regional issues, as well as the negotiation process regarding Iran’s nuclear activities, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry sources. …
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was convicted on all 16 criminal counts he faced including bribery at his corruption trial, completing the once-powerful New Jersey Democrat’s dramatic downfall, Reuters reports. The jury in Manhattan federal court deliberated for more than 12 hours over three days before reaching a verdict in a trial that had taken…
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…
Apart from a number of statements and videos, the fact of the use of phosphorus weapons by Azerbaijan during the 44-day war was also confirmed by an expert examination (Statement of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh): https://t.ly/gSTR ). This was stated in the Facebook post of Artsakh Human Rights Defender Gegham…
Finland has notified the United Nations it is leaving the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines, its foreign ministry said late on Thursday, Reuters reports. The withdrawal will take effect six months after the notification, in January 2026, the ministry said in a statement. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Poland…
The new Chinese minister of foreign affairs in a phone talk with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian invited him to have an official visit to China, IRNA reports. The Iranian foreign minister in his Thursday evening phone talk with Chin Gang, the new Chinese foreign minister congratulated the Chinese New Year and spring season celebration…
The new official dollar exchange rate set by the National Bank of Georgia is 2.9506 GEL. According to the data published by the National Bank, as a result of today’s trades, the value of the dollar amounted to 2.9506 lari. The former exchange rate was 2.9544 lari per 1 US dollar. Accordingly, the change in…
The Turkish President called for increased cooperation between Iran and Turkey in the fight against terrorism and Islamophobia during the ceremony where the new Iranian Ambassador to Ankara presented his letter of credence, Turkey’s Government reports. Iran’s new Ambassador to Ankara, Mohammad Hassan Habibollahzadeh, presented his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on…
Reuters. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi on Thursday (July 2) pledged to boost their two countries’ cooperation in artificial intelligence, defence, energy, and economic ties. Takaichi is on a three-day visit to New Delhi as the two Asian partners hold their 16th annual summit. Bilateral trade between…
The European Commission has proposed suspending parts of the EU-Georgia Visa Facilitation Agreement, targeting Georgian diplomats, officials, and their families, civil.ge reports. If adopted by the Council, these individuals would need visas for short stays in the EU (up to 90 days in any 180-day period), losing privileges such as reduced fees, shorter application…
Moscow welcomes the holding of negotiations between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia on the peace treaty in Almaty on May 10 and 11, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin stated in an interview with the News.ru platform. According to him, another step has been taken in the direction of achieving reliable and long-term…
The CSTO will clarify the details of position of Armenia, who stated it will not hold CSTO military exercises in 2023, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday, adding that Moscow will continue the dialogue with Yerevan on complicated issues. “This is a rather new statement from the Armenian Prime Minister; I believe the…
Vice President Kamala Harris met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday (July 25) in her ceremonial office at the White House, Reuters reports. The meeting will be closely watched for signs of how Harris, who was the first top U.S. official to call for a ceasefire, could shift American policy toward Israel if…
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…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the results of two regional elections that saw big wins for the far-right AfD and losses for his coalition “bitter” and urged mainstream parties to form governments without “right-wing extremists.” The Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party to win a state legislature election in Germany since…
At night, Russia carried out new strikes in the direction of Ukraine with an unknown missile launched from the Belgorod region, as well as 62 ‘Shaheed’ strike and unknown drones, the Air Force of Ukraine reported. According to the source, the target of the Russian missile was the private sector in the Sumy region….
The Turkish foreign minister on Friday called on opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to produce evidence to back his allegations that Russia was interfering in Turkey’s elections. “Kılıçdaroğlu must first say ‘no one should interfere’ (in elections). If there is any information or a document, he needs to say it,” Çavuşoğlu told Anadolu. Çavuşoğlu ‘s…
Armenia continues to believe that the Russian peacekeeping mission is able to restore the status quo established in Nagorno-Karabakh by the 2020 trilateral statement, the situation as of March 23, 2022, which has been violated by the incursion of the Azerbaijani armed forces into Parukh village in Askeran, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said at a…
Ilia Darchiashvili, Foreign Minister of Georgia, congratulated Armenia and its people on the National Day. “Happy First Republic Day to Armenia, its people, government and my colleague Ararat Mirzoyan. May this day be filled with peace, unity, and prosperity for your nation. We are committed to continuing strengthening strategic partnership and unique ties between…
On March 29, Armenia’s Minister of High-tech Industry Mkhitar Hayrapetyan received Mehdi Sobhani, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Republic of Armenia. The Minister noted that friendly relations with Iran have a centuries-old history, and now there are all prerequisites for bringing the cooperation to a new level….
USA Ambassador to OSCE Michael Carpenter delivered a speech on the latest development between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The speech is as follows: The United States remains deeply engaged in helping Armenia and Azerbaijan work toward a comprehensive peace agreement. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Azerbaijani presidential advisor Hikmet Hajiyev and Armenia’s National Security…
US State Secretary Antony Blinken condemned the terror attack in Moscow region’s “Crocus City Hall” music hall, which took place on March 22. “The United States strongly condemns yesterday’s deadly terrorist attack in Moscow. We send our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed and all affected by this heinous…
US President Donald Trump stated that neither the People’s Republic of China nor the Russian Federation is involved in supplying weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran. He also assured that the United States does not supply weapons to Ukraine, as it sells them only to NATO allies. He wrote about this on the…
The resignation of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the longest-serving premier of the nation, means the country will face a general election later this year. Rutte and his government will remain in office in a caretaker capacity until a new ruling coalition is chosen, Euronews reports. The Dutch government collapsed Friday because of irreconcilable differences…
