Despite these economic incentives for cooperation, hard security concerns continue to strain Iran and Azerbaijan’s relationship. In late June, Turkey and Azerbaijan began joint military drills in Baku.
With the habitual pomp and publicity from the Cuban Government, the contingent of medical workers from the Henry Reeve Brigade that had been sent to Azerbaijan last year to help fight the Covid pandemic landed at the José Martí airport in Havana on Thursday.
The petroleum division on Monday said it did not avail the offer of Azerbaijan’s state-run company for import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on credit because its price was ‘substantially expensive’ besides other challenges.
An exhibition called "Discover the origin of our national heritage with the steps of Tur Heyerdahl to Azerbaijan” in Larvik, Norway was opened at the initiative of “CAN” in Norway, with the support of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora, the Fund for Support to Azerbaijani Diaspora, the Tur Heyerdahl Institute, the Westfold Museum and “The Viking Planet” Museum.
At the initiative of Azerbaijani Diaspora Volunteers with “Karabakh is Azerbaijan” National Platform, a special action was held to protest against the pollution of the Oxchuchay River by toxic waste by Armenian and German companies passing through the Zangilan region of Azerbaijan and flowing into the Araz River.
July 2020 marked one of the most intense escalations in the more than thirty-year-old conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the occupied Azerbaijani territories – Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.
Azerbaijan State Oil Company (Socar) has expressed frustration over the Petroleum Division’s prolonged silence over its offer of providing two credit lines of over $220 million for oil and gas supplies to Pakistan.
The leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is determining factor behind China's great changes and remarkable achievements, said Ali Ahmadov, deputy prime minister of Azerbaijan and vice chairman of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party.
The end of military operations in Karabakh with the signing of a trilateral statement caused different reactions in Armenia. The awakening of Armenian society, which was deceived by misinformation during the war, with the news of defeat at night, led to chaos. Different political groups taking an opportunity tried to overthrow the current government and seize power.
“Pakistan always stands with Azerbaijan, and the nation of Azerbaijan would always remember the role of Pakistan in 44-days against Armenia when Pakistan stood as a brother– shoulder to shoulder with Azerbaijanis”.
A new Baku-Yerevan agreement on the handover of 15 Armenian ex-convicts in a swap for mine maps in liberated Fuzuli and Zangilan regions has been hailed by experts as President Ilham Aliyev’s diplomatic mastery and as another success of the Azerbaijani diplomacy.
Azerbaijani positions are being shelled more or less regularly by the Armenian Armed Forces these days. In particular, the Armenian side opened fire on our soldiers in the village of Garalar, Tovuz District. And the military unit near the village of Aliagaly, Aghdam District, was fired at by illegal Armenian armed groups ensconced in the territory of Azerbaijan where Russian peacekeepers are temporarily deployed. One Azerbaijani soldier was wounded. Before that, the positions of the Azerbaijani army in the area of the villages of Zeylik and Imambinasi in Kalbajar received fire.
Former Israeli Communications Minister Ayoub Kara was reported by The Jewish Press as being stranded at the Iran-Azerbaijan border.
If you listened to the speeches of the myriad of political forces competing in the just finished Armenian elections, you would be forgiven for thinking Armenia was not defeated by Azerbaijan in last year’s Second Karabakh War. Armenians continue to live in ‘parallel, imagined world’ which is ‘far from reality, a dreamworld.’
As being one of the rarest countries Azerbaijan achieved positive results at the successful implementation of “Millennium Development Goals” of UN under the supremacy of great leader Heydar Aliyev from 2000, and for the contribution to tolerance, multiculturalism, stimulating and assuring gender equality, diminishing poverty in a short term, retaining health of people, raising education standards of population, ameliorating environment, writes Mazahir Afandiyev, member of the Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic.
The Art of Carpet — Evolution of Meanings Exhibition from the collection of the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum opened in the Manege Exhibition Hall on 8 July. It presents both classic works of carpet art of the turn of the 19-20 centuries and modern author's carpets by Chingiz Babayev.
The Bulgaria-Greece gas interconnector will be finalized until July 2022, so that gas from Azerbaijan will reach Romania, wrote, on Facebook, Energy Minister Virgil Popescu, Agerpres informs.
In Russia’s opinion, the situation on the border between the two countries is not directly related to the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted.
After the Second Karabakh War, the tripartite ceasefire agreement on November 10, 2020, opens a possibility for Iran to become connected to the southern railway network in the South Caucasus. As a result of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, an important part of the South Caucasus Railway, which passed through the Nakhichevan region, Syunik Province in southern Armenia, and Jabrail, Fizuli and Zangilan regions in southern Azerbaijan, was destroyed or removed from communication routes. As a result, unlike Turkey and Russia, Iran has no rail connection to the Caucasus.
Azerbaijan is the most prosperous country and Azerbaijan has been successful in fighting the pandemic and also in avoiding a major economic backlash due to the pandemic. Azerbaijan has suffered the least in this crisis, for which we commend the country and its people, for coming out of the crisis with limited impact.
The military-political situation in the South Caucasus region became one of the main subjects of discussion during the visit of the acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan to Russia. By the way, this is the Armenian leader’s first foreign trip after the recent snap parliamentary elections.
The European Commission has launched the second phase of its EU4Energy programme, which promotes low-carbon and clean energy transitions in the Eastern Partnership (EaP), a joint initiative involving the European Union, its Members States and six Eastern European Partners: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
The European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, arrived in Georgia on 7 July at the start of a tour of the South Caucasus, his first mission to countries of the Eastern Partnership.
The WHO office in Azerbaijan, as part of the EU-funded Solidarity for Health Initiative and COVID-19 Vaccination and Vaccine Preparedness projects, has assessed the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) situation in eight COVID-19 vaccination sites and five primary health care facilities.
