Hikmat Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, met with Jake Sullivan, US President’s National Security Advisor, President’s assistant said this in his post on page X. “We had a very meaningful meeting with Jake Sullivan. We reviewed the cooperation between our countries and the future development of our relations. …
On May 17, the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia Zhanna Andreasyan met with the Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey Mehmet Nuri Ersoy within the framework of the International Conference of Ministers of Culture held in Ashgabat. The Ministry of Education and Culture…
Baku responded to the statements of French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. He called Azerbaijan a dictatorship and noted that Baku interferes in the internal affairs of New Caledonia. Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesman Aykhan Hajizada demanded an apology from France, adding, “otherwise it will have an even greater negative impact on bilateral relations.” According…
Belarus will invest in the territories passed under the control of Baku, the President of Belarus announced during his visit to Azerbaijan. After the meeting with Ilham Aliyev, Alexander Lukashenko expressed his readiness to build an agricultural city in Nagorno-Karabakh and support the development of agriculture. “We are ready to build an agro-city…
The Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration, Hikmat Hajiyev is on a visit to the US, Azerbaijani media reports. During the visit, Hajiyev met with John Bass, US Acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Yuri Kim, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for…
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan held an emergency meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies and the Ministry of Justice after leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeliwarned about the possible coup attempt, Sabah reports. The Ankara Prosecutor General’s Office began an investigation against three police officers of the capital’s…
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…
Today, the solemn ceremony of the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Nagorno-Karabakh will take place in the Ivanyan settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani media reports about it. According to sources, high-ranking military personnel of Azerbaijan and Russia will participate in the event. Russian peacekeeping troops were stationed in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, on the basis of…
A protest rally against the bill On Transparency of Foreign Influence continues on Rustaveli Avenue at the Georgian parliament, 1tv.ge reports. The participants claim that, if passed, the law will obstruct Georgia’s EU integration process and keep rallying at all entrances of the parliament hitting their hands on the iron fences. Some protesters arrived…
During his visit to Armenia, OSCE Chair-in-Office, Malta’s Minister for Foreign, European Affairs and Trade, Ian Borg, underscored the Organization’s unwavering commitment to promoting and advancing sustainable peace throughout the OSCE region, the organization said in a statement. In Yerevan, Minister Borg met Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan, President…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze met James C. O’Brien, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, 1tv.ge reports. According to the Government Administration, at the long and sincere meeting, the conversation touched on all issues of Georgian-American relations, including the processes developed in Georgia over the past few years. The…
Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement regarding the new negotiation round between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “Belgium welcomes the new round of negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan on 10 and 11 May, the recent agreement on the use of the 1991 Alma Ata Declaration as the basis for border delimitation, as well as…
Israel began to send back its diplomats to Turkey earlier this month, half a year after it withdrew them over security concerns, Israeli sources told Middle East Eye on Monday. “As the Israeli departure was due to security reasons, Israel is trying to gradually send back its diplomats,” an Israeli source told MEE. …
The OSCE Chair-in-Office, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta, Ian Borg, will visit Azerbaijan on 14 May. In Baku, Minister Borg will meet with President Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister Ali Asadov, Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and First Deputy Chair of the National Assembly Ali Huseynli, as well as members of…
The most important message was the following – negotiations will not open for Georgia in December if this draft law becomes a law, – one of the leaders of EuroOptimists Khatia Dekanoidze said after meeting with the chairmen of the foreign affairs committees of several EU member states, ipn reports. As Dekanoidze points out,…
The Legal Affairs Committee of the Georgian Parliament on Monday approved the bill on transparency of foreign influence, reintroduced by the ruling Georgian Dream party against public protests, in its third hearing. The session reviewed the draft law, which calls for registration of non-commercial legal entities and media outlets in the country as “pursuing…
We are deeply alarmed about democratic backsliding in Georgia, Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser of the US President, wrote in his X microblog. “Georgian Parliamentarians face a critical choice – whether to support the Georgian people’s EuroAtlantic aspirations or pass a Kremlin-style foreign agents’ law that runs counter to democratic values,” Sullivan stated. He added that the…
The negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov ended in Almaty, the media reports. The meeting lasted more than four hours.
The United States on Thursday welcomed the offer of Kazakhstan to host Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers tomorrow in Almaty to advance discussions on a peace agreement between the two countries, US State Department reports. “Almaty is an important, symbolic venue,” a State Department Spokesperson said. “We welcome the offer of Kazakhstan to host…
The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov believes that today’s negotiations with Armenia will contribute to the peace process. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, at today’s meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Murat Nurtleu, expressed confidence that today’s negotiations will contribute to the process amid recent agreement reached between the delimitation commissions. Speaking about the…
During the meeting with the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan in Ankara, the President of Turkey announced the “progress achieved” in the negotiations between Yerevan and Baku. He noted that he expects positive results from the meeting of the foreign ministers of the two countries on May 10 in Almaty. “The peace treaty between Armenia…
Moscow welcomes the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan scheduled for May 10 in Almaty, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said at a briefing. “We welcome this meeting, which is scheduled for May 10,” the diplomat said, asked about Russia’s expectations from the upcoming talks. . …
According to the decision of the Political Council of the ruling Georgian Dream, we are beginning to create a database, which will comprise information about all those individuals who are involved in violence, other illegal actions, threats and blackmail, or publicly approve of such actions, through party structures,” Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili stated at…
EU Mission in Armenia issued a statement on the occasion of EU and the Republic of Armenia on the status of EUMA – the SOMA. “Important development and great news for EUMA! Following the completion of the final steps of ratification, the Agreement between the EU and the Republic of Armenia on the status…
The Legal Affairs Committee will discuss the nine points required to join the European Union at the sitting on May 10, the committee chair, Anri Okhanashvili, said in a post, adding the committee will discuss the transparency bill in its third reading on May 13, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. “On Friday, May 10, we…
Reuters. U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi met Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Monday (May 6). The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is hoping to bolster his agency’s oversight of Tehran’s atomic activities after various setbacks. Iranian nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami, speaking…
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who chairs the Eurasian Economic Union, will chair the jubilee summit of the organization, which will take place on May 8 in Moscow. Yuri Ushakov, assistant to the Russian President, informed the journalists about this in a briefing. “The session is dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the signing…
The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Turkey met within the framework of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Gambia. Jeyhun Bayramov and Hakan Fidan exchanged thoughts about Baku-Ankara alliance relations, which, according to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, are dynamically developing and have reached a qualitatively…
The Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Turkish Parliament, Fuat Oktay, met with the Republican Senators Jim Risch and Thom Tillis and the Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen as part of his visit to Washington. According to Turkish media, during the negotiations Turkey’s bid to purchase F-16 fighter jets from the US, the…
In a phone call with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, President of the European Council, Charles Michel discussed the recent developments in Georgia and reiterated the EU’s full support to all Georgians “who put European future of their country first,” Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. “Georgian citizens’ call for an open democratic and pluralistic society…
