Hikmat Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration, stated that the initialing of the peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan will ensure the legitimacy and the legality, and also the guiding principles of international law in the South Caucasus region.
Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, has sent a letter of thanks to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.
Azerbaijan, a leader member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and Organisation of Turkic States (OTC), is a relatively new addition to the small number of secular Islamic states in the world alongside Türkiye, Indonesia and Pakistan.
Hungary continues to receive the bulk of its oil from Russia through the Druzhba pipeline and its gas via TurkStream.
The Azerbaijani people, with their ancient history of statehood and culture, have repeatedly faced hardship, deportations, and genocides over the past two centuries.
Until recently, Astana did not give much thought to this dependency. Relations with Moscow were relatively warm; Kazakhstan was a member of both the CSTO and the Eurasian Economic Union.
Amid the recent chain of events, one episode stands out — the sudden phone call from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Baku urges greater donor support as over 1M mines remain, and only 20% of contaminated areas have been cleared since 2020.
On 4 December, the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich Merz, called the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.
The corruption scandal in the European Union continues to dominate the attention of politicians and experts — unsurprisingly. After all, the investigation now targets Federica Mogherini, the former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Stefano Sannino, the former Secretary-General of the same service.
In recent days, virtually every significant move by Armenia’s leadership—both domestic and foreign—has been viewed through the lens of mounting pre-election dynamics. Preparations for next summer’s parliamentary elections have become the central factor shaping the government’s decisions.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Minister of State for Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Lord Vernon Coaker.
US President Donald Trump has announced a pardon for Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar, who last year was indicted on more than a dozen federal charges related to corruption and money laundering. His wife, Imelda Cuellar, was also included in the amnesty.
The negotiating documents on Karabakh released by the Armenian government have, as expected, drawn the attention of both Azerbaijani experts and the broader public.
Karabakh remains Armenia’s dominant domestic political issue — a fact reaffirmed by the government’s recent publication of long-concealed negotiation documents on the conflict.
Brigadier General Chris McKin, Deputy Director for Partnership, Security, Cooperation, and Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention at the United States European Command (EUCOM), has arrived in Azerbaijan with a delegation.
A rather strange appeal was recently published from by former US State Department Josh Paul and the Armenian National Committee of America signed by a long list of Palestinian and other organisations. The appeal did not praise peace coming to the Middle East, which has seen eight decades of conflict, but rather aggressively attacked Azerbaijan as unfit to be part of the planned 20,000-strong International Stabilization Force (ISF).
In recent months, debate within the European Union has intensified over a potential EU role in implementing the TRIPP project—the so-called “Trump Route,” which forms part of the Zangezur Corridor and fits into a broader system of transregional connectivity.
On December 1, the international defense exhibition EDEX-2025 opened in Cairo, Egypt. A delegation from Azerbaijan, led by Minister of Defense Industry Vugar Mustafayev, took part in the opening ceremony.
An Azerbaijani delegation will visit Türkiye to share its COP29 experience.
Today, the Azerbaijani ASAN xidmət model is being applied in 30 countries.
The European Union is holding talks with the United States, Azerbaijan, and Türkiye on possible participation in the TRIPP project (The Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity), EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said.
In January–September 2025, Azerbaijan’s revenues from main oil pipelines totaled 764.5115 million manats, a 3.6% decrease compared to the same period last year.
The Organization of Turkic States (OTS), long perceived as a regional “cultural club,” positioned itself in 2025 as an effective geopolitical instrument aimed at strengthening the strategic agency of Turkic-speaking nations in Central Asia and the South Caucasus—an evolution with clear implications for reducing Russia’s influence.
