Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that it is not expedient to hold the exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Armenia this year.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that it is not expedient to hold the exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Armenia this year.
One of the factors encouraging the French to awaken activity in the Caucasus region is its traditional anti-Anglo-Saxon orientation. France has no interest in strengthening the Anglo-American tandem in the South Caucasus from weakening the Russian influence standpoint. This rivalry has a long history, and its geography spans the entire world.
It seems that Europe has long been aware of the criminal ties of Ruben Vardanyan, a Russian billionaire of Armenian origin and a crook, who recently became the "state minister of Artsakh".
By the end of 2022 foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan reached $8 bln 995.7 mln, the CBA website reports.
Turkey invites Azerbaijan to collaboration in the production of fighter jets, said President of Turkey’s Defense Industry Agency Ismail Demir.
Erdoğan pointed out that Turkish UAVs are among the best in the world, and the howitzers would make the country even stronger.
The economy of Azerbaijan, which has recovered after a pandemic recession, has been demonstrating a steady growth of non-oil production for a year and a half amid the rapid increase in revenues from oil and gas exports.
Switzerland’s Davos will host the 53-rd annual World Economic Forum (WEF) from January 16 to 20. 'Cooperation in a Fragmented World' is the main topic of the event.
An EU assessment team has arrived in Armenia to discuss the possibility of deploying a new civilian mission on the border with Azerbaijan, the Armenian Foreign Ministry's press service reports.
Unhindered delivery of food and other goods from the territory of Armenia to Khankendi in the required volumes continues as usual along the Lachin road, where the action of Azerbaijani eco-activists is taking place.
For a man who just renounced his Russian citizenship in a blaze of publicity, billionaire oligarch Ruben Vardanyan surprisingly left a lot behind.
Police in Gyumri blocked the approaches to the 102nd Russian military base in Armenia before the announced anti-Russian rally, Russian media report. Detentions have begun.
Iran using children as a tool against Azerbaijan is certainly a provocation that should be strongly condemned. Such actions are despicable and completely inappropriate in any political context, says former US ambassador to Azerbaijan, former US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, and Jamestown Foundation Board Member Matthew Bryza.
Highlighting the strength of multidimensional relations, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Qatar H E Rashad Ismayilov has said that the bilateral trade relations between Azerbaijan and Qatar have been developing mostly since 2017.
After consultations in Tehran with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, dubbed by reformists behind his back the "silver fox" of centuries-old Iranian diplomacy, Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Seyed Abbas Mousavi made a more than bizarre statement.
Azerbaijan’s parliament announced on Friday, November 18, 2022, that it initiated the process of opening an embassy in the State of Israel. It is the first Shi’ite Muslim-majority country to do so.
Projects in the liberated territories can be a model for economic growth in the rest of Azerbaijan, Antonio Nucifora, Practice Manager for Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment in Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank Group, said in an exclusive interview with Trend.
“It is unfortunate that the US Ambassador to the OSCE is deceived by false narrative on ‘blockade’ and ‘humanitarian situation’. Why it is OK to use the Lachin road for
Using children as tools of military provocation is unacceptable under international law. Unfortunately, the authoritarian regime in Iran ignores all international principles.
Today is the 26th day of the Azerbaijani environmentalists' protest on the Lachin-Shusha-Khankendi road. And for the 26th day Armenia is trying to feed its version of the events about "120,000 Artsakh people suffering in the blockade", "separated families", "sick people who cannot be transported to Armenia" etc. to the world media.
Losing hope of somehow influencing Azerbaijanis' peaceful protest, which has been going on for 25 days on the Shusha-Khankendi road, the separatists continue to push for sympathy. This time they decided to bring back the OSCE Minsk Group, may it rest in peace.
According to the Global Firepower portal, in 2023 Azerbaijan moved up in the ranking of the strongest armies of the world and is now 57th among 145 countries in terms of military power, ranking the highest in the South Caucasus with a PowerIndex score of 0.9391.
The European Union (EU) played practically no mediating role between Armenia and Azerbaijan over their territorial conflict until the Second Karabakh War in late 2020.
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