Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed Thursday that he plans to stand for reelection next year. ”(Recep) Tayyip Erdogan is the candidate of the People’s Alliance,” Erdogan said, referring to the between his Justice and Development Party and a nationalist party. “If you have the courage, declare your candidacy or the candidate of the alliance.”…
On June 10, the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization chaired by the Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan will take place in Yerevan. The sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member states will take place in a narrow, then in an expanded format….
During a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan reported that the possible document on normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan and issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process were at the center of their discussion. “I reaffirmed the readiness of the Government of the Republic…
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…
Russia will not use the demining of Ukrainian ports for military purposes and agrees “in one way or another” to formalize appropriate guarantees, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday at a press conference following talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, TASS reports. According to the minister, Moscow is ready to discuss with…
During the talks between the Moscow and Ankara delegations, the sides discussed preparations for a Turkish military operation in northern Syria. During the meeting, the Russian side did not approve of the move, due to which Turkey had to stop preparing for the battle, Hürriyet reports. This refers to the planned operation in the Ain…
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) should be a balancing factor in the Euro-Atlantic region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview for a documentary, headlined ‘CSTO Allies – 30 Years on Guard of Collective Security,’ TASS reports. “A heated debate is now under way regarding how to implement CSTO summit decisions on…
The European Parliament passed its annual report on Turkey with 448 votes in favor, 67 against and 107 abstentions. The document also touched upon Turkey’s relations with Armenia and the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The report refers to the European Parliament’s report of 15 April 2015 on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide and…
The Georgian Dream Government announced it had filed a lawsuit in the Constitutional Court regarding the separation of powers with President Salome Zurabishvili over the ambassadorial (non)appointments, civil.ge reports. “The Government of Georgia considers that the rejection of the nominations by the President of Georgia for the appointment and dismissal of ambassadors does not constitute its…
The meeting of the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the Islamic Republic of Iran Arsen Avagyan with the Rector of the University of Tehran Seyed Mohammad Moghimi and the management staff of the university took place on June 6, 2022. Issues related to the development of cooperation between the educational and scientific…
The Spanish SATLANTIS company has announced that after the successful launch of Urdaneta from Cape Canaveral, the company will provide a full Earth Observation system to Geocosmos, the Armenian company subsidiary of the RA Ministry of High-Tech Industry. Urdaneta, now renamed to the working title ARMSAT_1, will be the first satellite in space for the…
The issue of the return of Armenian captives, who are illegally held in Azerbaijan, has been raised last year at different international platforms, various international organizations made statements calling for the release of the captives, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan said during the joint session of parliamentary standing committees, while presenting the ministry’s 2021…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry welcomed a two-month extension of the truce brokered by the UN between the Saudi-led invading coalition and Yemeni forces, once again hoping for a permanent ceasefire and finding a political solution to the crisis, Tasnim News Agency reports. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh expressed hope that the truce will be the…
Turkish President Recem Tayyip Erdogan has been nominated by the country’s ruling Workers’ Party as a candidate from the People’s Alliance in the upcoming presidential elections in 2023. This became known on Saturday, June 4. “The People’s Alliance candidate will be our President Tayyip Erdogan. We have finally decided on this topic,” said AKP spokesman…
Turkey summoned the Greek ambassador to Ankara to the foreign ministry to protest about what it said was Greece providing opportunities for terrorist groups to conduct activities, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported. Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris was also summoned after Greece allowed a protest near the Turkish embassy in Athens by the militant Kurdistan Workers…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin in Washington to discuss the country’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He announced this on his Twitter microblog. “Great to meet with Prime Minister Marin Sanna of our close partner Finland in Washington. We discussed the need to address Turkey’s concerns…
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar. The Prime Minister praised the Armenia-EU partnership, highly appreciating the efforts of the EU and European Council President Charles Michel for regional stability. In the context of regional peace and the peaceful settlement of…
Mher Margaryan, Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations, delivered a statement in the UN Security Council open debate on “Strengthening Accountability and Justice for Serious Violations of International Law”. In his remarks Mher Margaryan touched upon the issue of impunity of crimes that happened in the past, in the context of prevention of…
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan received European Union’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, Toivo Klaar. During the meeting FM Mirzoyan presented Armenia’s position on the establishment of regional peace and stability and the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and in this context reaffirmed the importance…
The newly appointed Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Republic of Armenia Nora Arisian handed the copies of her credentials to Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan. Minister Mirzoyan congratulated Nora Arisian and expressed confidence that her diplomatic activity will serve the continuous development of the Armenian-Syrian relations and the expansion of…
Michael Rubin, the Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Defense Secretary Adviser, and Davit Muradyan discussed current developments in Caucasus and Middle East, Turkey’s behavior in Syria and other regions, Azerbaijan’s continuous rhetoric.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi held a telephone conversation, the PM’s Office reported. PM Pashinyan shared his impressions and provided information about the latest meeting held in Brussels. The sides exchanged thoughts particularly about the opening of regional communications, the launch of delimitation works of the Armenia-Azerbaijan state…
Moscow is picking up signals that Kiev has no intention of using US-supplied Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) against targets on Russian soil, but it will link them to the real state of affairs, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS on Wednesday. “I would rather not comment on something, which is mostly secondary….
The official welcoming ceremony of the President of the Republic of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan, who arrived in Georgia on an official visit, took place on May 30 at the Orbeliani Palace of the President of Georgia. The military orchestra performed the anthems of Armenia and Georgia. After the official welcoming ceremony, the President of Armenia…
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will not expand in the near future, said the Secretary General of the organization. “At the same time, work is being done within the organization, we have also developed an algorithm of cooperation with external partners. We have full control over the situation in our area of responsibility,” Stanislav…
Kazakhstan’s first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, will support changes to the country’s constitution at an upcoming referendum to be held on June 5. A number of proposed changes exclude the mention of it from the basic law of Kazakhstan. About his intention to support constitutional amendments Nazarbayev said in an interview Kazakh political scientist Daniyar…
The Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions (also known as the Syrian National Army, SNA) targeted on Friday the center of the town of Zarkan (Abu Rasin) north of Hasakah, northeast Syria with heavy weapons. A local source told North Press that the Turkish forces and the affiliated factions targeted the center of…
Australia’s national capital is marking the 104th Anniversary of the Independence of the First Republic of Armenia with a light tribute of the Armenian tricolor onto Canberra’s iconic Telstra Tower. On 28th May 2022, the 195.2 meter-tall building that looks over the nation’s capital will be illuminated red, blue, orange from 5:00pm – 11:00pm (AEST)….
Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan described as “constructive” the first meeting of the commissions on delimitation and border security between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Grigoryan, who is the head of the Armenian commission, told TASS News Agency that organizational issues relating exclusively to the future joint work were discussed at the first meeting. “We met on…
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received Ambassador of Russia to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin. PM Pashinyan said that the Armenian-Russian allied relations bear a dynamic character over the recent years, adding that the Russian Embassy in Armenia has a great contribution to this. Pashinyan said that there are close contacts between the partners of the two countries,…
