Armenians face an urgent humanitarian crisis due to Azerbaijan’s illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor, resulting in severe shortages of food and medicine. US Senator Jacky Rosen wrote about it on the X (former Twitter) microblog. “I stand with the Armenian people in their call for humanitarian assistance, and call on Azerbaijan to lift its…
Four Iranian policemen were killed on Sunday after attackers fired on a patrol in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Balochistan, near the border with Pakistan, state media reported. “Three policemen were martyred in a terrorist attack on a police patrol unit,” state news agency IRNA said. A fourth died later from his wounds,…
Russia relies on a full complex of trilateral agreements at the highest level, including the November 9 2020 , January 11 and November 26 2021, and October 31 2022 documents. Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced during her weekly briefing. “They are a reliable basis for promoting the normalization process…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he had spoken with Iranian authorities and urged them to get the Hamas movement ruling in the Gaza Strip to release the hostages and to keep the Lebanese Hezbollah movement from interfering in the conflict with Israel. “I spoke to Iran and asked for two things. Firstly, to put pressure…
On the morning of May 25, the first cargo train from Azerbaijan arrived in Turkey on the modernized Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway. The train delivered 632 tons of plastic raw materials from Baku to Kars, loaded with 20 containers. The modernization and expansion works of 184 km of the Georgian section of the railway are…
Western countries are trying to create cracks in the relations between Yerevan and Moscow, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin stated in an interview with Radio Sputnik. “It is known that the leadership of Armenia has now put into question the security formula that has worked until now, and has started diversifying that sector….
Japan’s foreign minister arrived in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss North Korea’s deepening military alliance with Russia, including the deployment of thousands of troops to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, to reaffirm Japan’s “strong support” for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and to discuss…
According to the head of the National Center for Disease Control, Amiran Gamkrelidze, the infection statistics published on stopcov.ge on February 14 do not reflect real data. As the epidemiologist noted, the reason for this was technical problems on the portal. Gamkrelidze promised that updated data would be uploaded at a later date. Recall, according…
Russian and Ukrainian commissioners held talks on the humanitarian issues on the sidelines of an international ombudsman conference in Turkey’s capital Ankara on Thursday, Reuters reports. This is the third meeting between the two sides on the sidelines of the conference. Two meetings have been held on Tuesday evening and Wednesday noon. This was a…
On November 24, I delivered a speech on the occasion of of the UAE 52-nd Union Day, Deputy Parliament Speaker of Armenia Hakob Arshakyan stated in his Facebook page. “Warmly congratulating on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the establishment of the United Arab Emirates, I noted that I am following with the…
On December 1, the Armenian side transferred the bones of presumably 10 victims of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, as well as 2 maps showing the possible location of 4 bodies to the Azerbaijani side, the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia reports. Since November 9, 2020 the Armenian side handed over to Azerbaijan the bones…
US State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel commented on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s post on Twitter. “Secretary Blinken is very engaged in facilitating peace discussions between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and we are encouraged by the progress made toward lasting and sustainable peace in the South Caucasus. We very much appreciate Nikol Pashinyan’s message on…
The military delegations of Turkey and Ukraine held talks in Ankara, the Turkish military department said. It is noted that at the meeting, ideas were exchanged on bilateral and regional issues related to defense and security. The level of representation of the delegations is not specified. According to media reports, the issue of establishing a…
In Washington DC, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with Erika Olson, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Philip Reeker, the U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group and Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations. It was followed by the meeting of the Foreign Minister of Armenia, the U.S. Deputy…
During the briefing of US Deputy Spokesperson of the US Secretary of State Vedant Patel, the journalist tried to find out what US officials are doing regarding the South Caucasus. Ambassador Bono was in the region, conducting negotiations in Baku and Yerevan, Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Erika Olson has just finished her meetings in…
A Russian missile strike on a training exercise in Ukraine’s Sumy border region has killed six servicemen and wounded more than 10 others, says Ukraine’s National Guard, BBC reports. Russia’s defence ministry had earlier released a video purporting to show an Iskander missile attack on a training camp, and state news agency Tass said…
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…
The US Senate approved the appointment of Mark Libby as ambassador to Azerbaijan, US Senate Majority Floor Updates’ X post said. Ambassador Libby was approved by voice vote. Earlier the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved his candidacy.
The diplomatic mission of US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mark Libby ended. Libby had previously announced that he was stepping down due to health issues and was returning to the US to fully focus on his health.
After a chain of meetings and exchange of proposals and responses, Good Party leader Meral Aksener has once again taken her seat at the Table of Six. The leader of Turkey’s nationalist Good Party returned to the opposition alliance days after signalling exit by accusing other party leaders of “imposing” a presidential candidate, giving precedence to “personal…
Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv’s right to self-defense, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag in his first reaction to the advance into Russian territory. “Ukraine has a right to defend itself. And according to international law, this right does not stop at the…
Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili will pay an official visit to the Republic of Armenia on April 5-6. The Speaker of the Parliament will hold meetings with Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan, President Vahagn Khachatryan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan. Shalva Papuashvili…
I am appalled by the recent serious breaches of the ceasefire on the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact and in particular the military operation launched by Azerbaijan on 3 August around the Lachin corridor and in the north-western section, Chair of the EU Delegation for relations with the South Caucasus, MEP Marina Kaljurand said in a…
European Union deal to allow Russia to transit some sanctioned goods to its Kaliningrad exclave via the EU, but the problem had not been resolved, Reuters reports. “There’s no solution to this problem just yet. We are expecting some progress (to allow Russia to transit goods), but at the moment we can’t say that the…
Following the arrest in France, on 12 June, of two men on suspicion of being sent to kill Mahammad Mirzali, an outspoken Azerbaijani video blogger who is a refugee in France, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for this latest apparent attempt to murder Mirzali on French territory to be addressed by the French and Azerbaijani…
Ukraine may resume talks with Russia from a strengthened position at the end of August after counteroffensives are conducted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in certain areas. The relevant statement was made by David Arakhamia, the Head of the Ukrainian delegation and the Leader of the Servant of the People Faction, in a…
On June 24, the President of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan who is on an official visit in Vienna met with the President of the National Council of the Republic of Austria Wolfgang Sobotka. Alen Simonyan thanked his Austrian colleague for the invitation and congratulated him on the 30th anniversary of the…
US President Joe Biden called on Americans in Ukraine to immediately leave the country, where the situation could quickly turn out of order. “American citizens must immediately leave Ukraine. It doesn’t look like we’re dealing with a terrorist organization. We are dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. This is a different…
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says several institutions and individuals from the European Union will be included in the Islamic Republic’s blacklist of sanctions, days after some European countries imposed a set of bans on the country under false pretexts, ParsToday reports. “In the coming days, the names of several institutions and individuals from the…
Reuters. Ukrainian air defences shot down about 15 drones launched by Russia in its third attack on the Ukrainian capital in four days, Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on Thursday (August 29) and air sirens rung across the capital in the early hours of the morning. Drone debris damaged the windows…
