The CSTO Collective Security Council session, chaired by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, started in Yerevan. The leaders of all the member countries of the organization have already arrived at the meeting place. The Prime Minister of Armenia welcomed them. International and regional security issues and the main results of CSTO activities will be…
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…
Georgia’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Levan Davitashvili, announced at a briefing the government is working on a project to supply gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe through Georgia, civil.ge reports. Per Minister Davitashvili, the project – in which Azerbaijan, Romania, and Hungary are also taking part – started in 2015…
Ned Price, US State Department Spokesperson said Washington opposes actions violating Iraq’s sovereignty in a statement. “The United States expresses its sincere condolences for the loss of civilian life in Syria and Turkey. We urge de-escalation in Syria to protect civilian life and support the common goal of defeating ISIS. We continue to oppose…
Russia calls on the Turkey for restraint to prevent further escalation in Syria, presidential envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev told reporters on Tuesday. “We will call on our Turkish colleagues to show certain restraint in order to prevent an escalation of tension and not only in the northern and northeastern regions of Syria but…
Iran will review its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Iran Nasser Kanaani. “During the visit of the high-ranking delegation of Iran to Vienna, agreements on constructive cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency were reached. However, the latest resolution of the agency’s board of…
Kazakhstan’s incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev won Sunday’s presidential election, gaining 81.31% of the vote, Chairman of the country’s Central Election Commission Nurlan Abdirov said at a briefing on Monday, citing preliminary data, TASS reports. “Kassym-Jomart Tokayev gained 81.31% of the vote, or 6,456,392 votes,” he specified. Abdirov added that the data had been provided by…
At least 31 people were killed and dozens injured following Turkey’s deadly airstrikes over northern regions of Syria and Iraq on Sunday, republicworld.com reports. According to the Turkish Defense Ministry, it has targeted Kurdish groups which it alleged were responsible for a bomb attack in Istanbul. In a statement released following the airstrikes, the defence…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a post on his Twitter after the meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan within the Francophonie Summit. “We’re committed to strengthening democracy, growing our economies, and advancing peace and security in the Caucasus. That’s what Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and I discussed when we sat down today…
Armenia has become the main beneficiary of Russians’ relocation due to the conflict in Ukraine, Renaissance Capital said in a report on the Armenian economy. Analysts of the investment company forecast the growth of GDP in the country this year to 14%, although at the beginning of the year they predicted the growth of the…
Bulgaria has charged five people with helping one of the suspects in last weekend’s bombing in central Istanbul which killed six people and wounded 81, prosecutors said, RFE/RL’s Bulgarian Service reports. Five people have been charged with assisting the suspect and giving him “logistical” help to flee, Siyka Mileva, a spokeswoman for the Sofia prosecutor’s office, said on…
A Swedish investigation into ruptures of the subsea Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines has detected residue of explosives and concluded that “grievous sabotage” caused the breakage, Bloomberg reports. The pipeline, which crosses the Baltic Sea to Germany from Russia, has been the focus of a probe by authorities in a number of…
Report informs that Azerbaijan is opening an Embassy in Israel, and the issue is included in the agenda of today’s session of the country’s Parliament. At the meeting, the deputies will discuss the draft law ‘On establishing an embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the State of Israel (Tel Aviv city)’.
A citizen working in the field near Artsakh’s Hatsi village came under Azerbaijani fire shortly after midday today, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) police inform. The 43-year-old resident of the village of Hatsi reported the incident to the Martuni regional department of the Police. Firing from the Azerbaijani positions forced the agricultural works to stop. The tire and…
Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson for US State Department, referred to the latest efforts by US Secretary Antony Blinken with Armenia and Azerbaijan, on peace efforts. “Secretary’s continued engagement on this is a direct result of the United States commitment to promoting a peaceful future for the South Caucasus region. I don’t think I…
On Thursday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will leave for Baku on a working visit, where he will take part in the XI Russia-Azerbaijan Interregional Forum. According to the press service of the Russian government, Mishustin will meet with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will hold talks with the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan…
The US administration claims the mechanism of the OSCE Minsk Group no longer works, and Washington deals with the peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan only in the direct interaction format with Yerevan and Baku. “I believe we have reached the point where we can put an end to that mandate through consensus: it…
On November 16, at 2:30 p.m., a 36-year-old resident of Sarushen village, Askeran district, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) reported to the Karmir Shuka Department of the Martuni district police department that at around 11:40 a.m. in the agricultural lands belonging to the Sarushen community of Askeran district, in the Amaras valley while carrying out works, the Azerbaijani…
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke yesterday with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, US State Department’s Spokesperson Ned Price said. “The Secretary welcomed efforts by both Armenia and Azerbaijan to support bilateral peace discussions following talks on November 7. He underscored the need for both sides to maintain momentum for the negotiations and…
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian described developing relations with the neighbors, including the Republic of Azerbaijan, as the priority of Iran’s foreign policy, Government of Iran reports. Amir Abdollahian made the remarks in a phone call with his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov. Expressing dissatisfaction with some unrealistic remarks made in recent days, he described…
Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden met with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a G20 summit on Indonesia’s Bali island on Tuesday (November 15). Agenda items for the NATO members could include extending a deal allowing Ukrainian grain exports to continue; Ankara’s request for F-16 jets; NATO enlargement; and the weekend Istanbul…
Russian-US talks did take place in Ankara on Monday at the initiative of the United States, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS. “Such negotiations did, indeed, take place. They were initiated by the US side,” the Kremlin spokesman said. Peskov avoided disclosing the subject matter of the conversations. Earlier, Reuters, citing a…
Following the statements by the German chancellor Olaf Scholz towards the Islamic Republic, Hans-Udo Muzel the German ambassador to Tehran was summoned to the foreign ministry on Monday, the ministry reports, describing the chancellor’s statements as meddlesome and irresponsible. During the session, the director general of the west European affairs of the foreign ministry…
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree defining the procedure for accepting foreign citizens to serve in the Russian Armed Forces. It is published on the portal of legal acts. Now Russians with a second citizenship will be drafted into the army for military service and under a contract. In accordance with the decree, military service…
Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan made a note regarding the explosion that took place on İstiklal Avenue in Istanbul. “I express my sincere condolences to the families of victims of the deadly explosion in Istanbul and wish a speedy recovery to the injured,” Mirzoyan wrote on his Twitter and also mentioned his Turkish colleague Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in…
The Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan has spread disinformation, claiming that units of the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire in the direction of the Azerbaijani positions on the November 13 evening, Armenia’s Defense Ministry reports.
Turkish President Recep Erdogan signed a decree appointing Sakir Ozkan Torunlar as Turkey’s ambassador to Israel. The decision was made after the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The respective document was published in the Turkish official bulletin, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had announced that Turkey has decided…
Events since the signing of the November 9, 2020 statement show that it is very important to have a guarantor or guarantors of the agreement in addition to the contracting parties. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this while answering the questions of the Public Television Company. “We keep saying peace treaty. If there are…
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, responding to the possibility of escalation of Iran-Azerbaijan relations and military conflict in an interview with Public Television, noted that Iran and Azerbaijan are friendly countries connected by deep cultural and economic ties. “If there is an issue, a debate, there are those in the relations of many countries, let’s…
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reiterates he is ready to sign a document extending the mandate of the Russian peacekeepers in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). “I said this at the meeting with Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Sochi, but there was no consensus,” the Prime Minister said in an interview with Public TV. He noted that theoretically…
