After nearly three decades with no relations and a closed border, the two countries’ leaders sound more hopeful than they have in years. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan recently said that Yerevan has been receiving “positive public signals” from Turkey.
Rumors of a breakthrough in Turkish-Armenian relations have no basis in fact. Turkey and Armenia cannot undertake a normalization of their relations without including Azerbaijan.
During the closing ceremony, officials from the three fraternal countries praised strong bilateral relations, cooperation.
Conflict-hit regions of Azerbaijan are undergoing extensive reconstruction and revitalization, with plans for green, digitally-connected smart cities offering a better way of life to citizens.
With the emergence of China and other manufacturing powerhouses in Asia that constantly seek access to new markets, the Caucasus has become attractive as a transit route for the movement of goods between the two parts of the Eurasian continent. Georgia (and by extension Armenia) have a historic chance to capitalize on this economic reality.
Azerbaijan has impounded more than half a tonne of heroin, one of the biggest ever seizures in the country situated on a major smuggling route to Europe, officials said Monday.
Armenia, the historian believes, will survive despite the efforts of its former leaders to bury it by dragging the country into expansionist schemes.
The Azerbaijani government has been undertaking a campaign against corrupt officials for nearly two years now, but in a series of recent hearings the accused say they have been set up.
Cooperation between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and Armenia had strengthened by the 1960s, though the beginnings of a close alliance between Kurdish nationalists and Armenian Dashnaks dates back to the early 20th century.
At a minimum, Russian officials worry that at least one of the littoral states could allow those powers a role in the Caspian basin that was supposed to have been prevented by the August 2018 agreement.
It seems to me that when it comes to sex, couples should think about themselves first, it's not right to have sex just to make a baby. "Couples who have good sex by giving each other pleasure don't experience it as just a penis-vagina union. Otherwise, as a result of physiological changes in one or both partners in later life, there may be a shift to another partner, which creates serious problems for the family."
As new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi forms his government, Baku and Tehran are expected to enter the next uneasy and uncertain phase in their bilateral relations. In particular, issues relating to the unfinished railway segment of the North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC) and the controversial hydropower projects on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border remain unresolved.
Any threats against Azerbaijan will be looked upon as threats against Turkey, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said.
Caucasian Islamic Army under command of Nuri Pasha (Killigil) liberated Baku from Armenian, Bolshevik occupation in 1918.
On 14 September, the news Ambassador of the European Union to Azerbaijan, Peter Michalko, handed over the copy of his Letters of Credence to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Jeyhun Bayramov.
Many things have changed since the first Karabakh war (1988–1994), when Armenia emerged victorious. However, the years leading up to the Second Karabakh war in 2020 show that, in the long term, Yerevan lost out on many opportunities owing to the events that unfolded during the first war.
Throughout history, the country known today as Azerbaijan was a key location on The Silk Road, the ancient network of trade routes connecting Central Asia with the West.
Azerbaijan is a net energy exporter; crude oil and natural gas production and exports are central to Azerbaijan’s economy and government revenues.
Azerbaijan Sunday warned Russia over allowing illegal entries of vehicles belonging to other countries into the country, contradicting the agreement signed between Baku, Moscow and Yerevan.
Oil & natural gas bring in around 90% of Azerbaijan’s export revenues and they finance around 60% of the government budget.
Backed by the juggernaut of the Chinese state, the "Belt and Road" project has been a hotspot for international investment for over a decade.
Abdullayeva’s remark came in response to a statement made by U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Lynne Tracy, in which she said that the Nagorno-Karabakh issued had not yet been resolved.
In this post-war period, and in the wake of its gains in the Second Karabakh War, Azerbaijan is in the process of pursuing ambitious infrastructure and connectivity projects spanning the transport, energy, and digital spheres.
The Turkish, Azerbaijani and Pakistani militaries will hold joint drills for the first time from Sept. 12-20 in Baku, Azerbaijan's defense ministry said Saturday.
