French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna highlighted the necessity to extend the EU monitoring mission’s mandate deployed in Armenia since October 20, 2022. “Through the border monitoring, this mission has really restricted the danger of escalation”, the Colonna said during a Q&A session in the National Assembly. She stated that the…
Georgia can’t and won’t provide military assistance to Ukraine, Mamuka Mdinaradze, chairman of the parliamentary faction of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Tuesday, TASS reports. Ukraine’s temporary charge d’affaires to Georgia, Andrey Kasyanov, said earlier on Tuesday that Kiev had asked Tbilisi multiple times to provide military or dual-purpose equipment, but the requests…
On December 6, the Human Rights Defender Ms. Kristinne Grigoryan met Ms. Erica Olson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State overseeing policy for Southern Europe and the Caucasus, in Washington. The Defender expressed her gratitude for the efforts made by the State Department toward the repatriation of Armenian prisoners of war. She also presented the…
Defense Ministers of Azerbaijan and Turkey Zakir Hasanov and Hulusi Akar discussed cooperation in the military sphere and regional security during the talks held in Baku. According to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, Hasanov emphasized the importance of expanding the work carried out in the direction of further development of…
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Monday that Iran will not negotiate under pressure and threats over the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, Xinhua reports. Iran still adheres to the negotiation process and aims to complete the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), said Kanaani during his…
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…
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has rejected claims that the country sometimes faces constitutional impasses, saying, however, that measures can be adopted to change the way the document is implemented. There is no impasse in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution, Raisi said on Saturday, adding that it has been compiled, written, and finalized in a…
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres held a telephone conversation on Friday evening over issues of mutual interest, Iran’s Foreign Ministry reports. In the telephone conversation, Amirabdollahian outlined Iran’s principled view about the developments in the Ukraine conflict and noted that the root-cause of the conflict lies in NATO’s flawed…
A while ago, a group of Azerbaijanis in civilian clothes closed the Stepanakert-Goris highway for environmental reasons at the intersection of Shushi-Karin Tak, Artsakh’s (Nagorno-Karabakh) InfoCenter reports. “It is obvious that by this step Azerbaijan is resorting to a provocation aimed at terminating the terrestrial connection between Armenia and Artsakh and subjecting the civilian population…
On a visit to Sotk, Armenia, member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies Jon Inarritu issued a call to the international community, urging them to force Azerbaijan to respect the peace agenda and to leave Armenian lands. “We are in Sotk (Armenia), all this area was bombed by Azerbaijan in September, leading to civilian casualties and…
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’…
On December 1, on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Łódź, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with Tanja Fajon, the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia. The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Slovenia discussed a number of…
On December 1, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan, who is in Poland to participate in the 29th OSCE Ministerial Council, met with Helga Schmid, the OSCE Secretary General. Minister Mirzoyan briefed his interlocutor on the fragile security situation in the region, pointing out that Azerbaijan’s continuous aggressions and warmongering rhetoric grossly violate the fundamental…
On December 1, Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan met with US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations Phillip Reeker, the Office of the Security Council said in a statement.
The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin’s statement that in early November technical delegations of the Armenian and Turkish governments met at the border. Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Vahan Hunanyan told ARMENPRESS that Armenian Vice Speaker of Parliament and Special Representative for Normalization…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili met with Philip Reeker, Senior Advisor of the US Department of State for Caucasus Negotiations and the Geneva International Discussions, in a working dinner format, 1tv.ge reports. At the meeting, Irakli Garibashvili and Philip Reeker discussed the importance of Georgia’s strategic partnership with the United States. The positive dynamic…
The legal formalities for the organization of a free trade zone with the EEU are expected to be settled within a month, Deputy Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade of Iran, the head of the Trade Development Organization of Iran Alireza Peyman Pak, RIA Novosti reported. Peyman Pak and Alexander Shokhin, head of the Russian…
Washington is interested in Armenia and Azerbaijan signing a peace agreement, US permanent representative to the OSCE Michael Carpenter said, answering the question whether the meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place, given that Baku refuses to hold peace talks if the French president Emmanuel Macron participates in them. “As…
“Azerbaijani side shelled the position of Nagorno-Karabakh armed formations in the Shushi region, as a result of which two people were injured,” the daily official bulletin of the Russian Ministry of Defense stated about the activities of the Russian peacekeeping troops in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. According to the report of the Russian peacekeeping force,…
Edmon Marukyan, Armenia’s Ambassador-at-Large referred to the refusal by Baku to participate in quadrilateral format meeting in Brussels on December 7. “Azerbaijan agreed in Prague to continue the meetings in a quadrilateral format. It’s logical that the format of the meeting and composition of participants must be the same. Therefore we hope that the…
Bilateral and regional cooperation was the focus of telephone talks between the Azerbaijani and Turkish foreign ministers, Jeyhun Bayramov and Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish foreign ministry said. “The ministers exchanged views on the current issues on the agenda of bilateral and regional cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey,” it said. Apart from that, the…
Israel is increasingly concerned that Iran will gain knowhow and experience from its cooperation with Russia in the military operation on Ukraine that will improve its abilities to attack targets in the Middle East, Haaretz reports. Israeli officials are concerned by Iran’s supply of drones to Russia and the countries’ subsequent cooperation on this issue….
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense requests Russian peacekeepers in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) not to use the name ‘Nagorno-Karabakh’, Edmon Marukyan, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a Twitter post. “Azerbaijan must remember that two years ago President Aliyev signed a trilateral ceasefire agreement where “Nagorno-Karabakh” is mentioned five times. That’s the legal ground…
On November 28, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Philip Reeker, the Senior Adviser for Caucasus Negotiations of the US State Department. At the meeting, the parties exchanged ideas on the settlement of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the meeting at the level of foreign ministers on the negotiation of a peace treaty in Washington….
Gen. Mazloum Abdi, top military commander for the Kurdish-led, U.S.-allied Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), said on Wednesday his alliance must suspend operations against the resurgent Islamic State in order to prepare for a potentially massive Turkish invasion that could put hundreds of American troops in Syria at risk. “We did not freeze the joint…
Incumbent Kazakh president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, was sworn in for a second term in office on Saturday (November 26), Reuters reports. Tokayev’s inauguration came after a snap election on November 20 which saw him garner 81.31% of the vote, according to Kazakstan’s electoral commission. He had been widely expected to extend his rule over the oil-rich nation…
Hailing longstanding bilateral ties, the Turkish President said his country is also rapidly developing its trilateral cooperation with Pakistan and Azerbaijan, Turkish media reports. “In addition to our bilateral cooperation, we also exchanged views on important regional and international issues on our common agenda,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a joint news conference with Pakistan’s…
The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, considered unacceptable the fact that there are Armenian schools in Iran, but there are no Azerbaijani schools. “There are 340 schools in Azerbaijan where teaching is carried out in Russian. There are also 10 Georgian schools in the republic. There are 116 Azerbaijani schools in Georgia. In Iran, there…
“Azerbaijan took control over Saribaba in August but only in November claimed about new mines there. Why? Because in September they invaded Jermuk area, Armenia’s sovereign territory, got access to mines, transferred to Saribaba to falsely accuse Armenia for using Lachin corridor to transfer ammunitions,” Ambassador-at-Large of Armenia Edmon Marukyan tweeted.
The US Department of Defense has voiced its concerns about Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria as part of a newly launched military operation, warning that the strikes put the safety of US personnel in the region at risk as well as the years-long fight against the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)….
