Whilst the EU is seen as a valuable partner for Azerbaijan and the South Caucasus, Baku has several concerns over perceived inconsistencies. In this op-ed, Vasif Huseynov says Azerbaijan welcomes Brussels playing a more active role in the region but argues that it must maintain balance in its relations with each of the countries.
Public activity is fraught with worries about the popularity ratings. Along with theorizing and practicing many ideas, actors within the public arena have to make sure they do not become an object of ridicule. Many a popular figure with a solid baggage of dividends has turned into an antihero overnight just because of one blunder.
A second firefighting team from Azerbaijan arrived Wednesday in Turkey to help with massive forest fires in southern provinces that have led to deaths and injuries.
People in Armenia, in general, do not think that Azerbaijan cares about the benefits for Armenia. The common perception here is that Azerbaijan is pursuing goals of its own, namely, carving a corridor from the eastern Azerbaijan not even to Nakhichevan, but to Turkey.
Macron introduced the so-called "passe sanitaire", a Covid-19 health pass: starting in August, people will not be allowed into bars, restaurants, hospitals, nursing homes, trains and planes without one. Another measure makes vaccination mandatory for health workers. The people of France responded with mass protests.
Continuing with armed provocations, Armenian forces on Monday fired upon Azerbaijani army positions in two different locations on Monday, the latter's Defense Ministry said.
Azerbaijan has opened its first diplomatic office in Israel, three decades after the countries initiated diplomatic relations.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have discussed the prospects and significance of the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey trilateral cooperation format during a telephone conversation, the government administration reports.
Azerbaijan said that its army posts in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic came under fire by Armenian forces early Monday.
Azerbaijan has issued a diplomatic demarche to Russia following an outburst of criticism by Russian maverick politician, Vladimir Zhirinovski.
Arya Aminipour, a literature student and linguaphile from northwest Tabriz city, speaks his mother tongue of Azeri-Turkish as fluently as he does Persian, Iran’s official language.
The confrontation with Armenian propaganda turned from diplomatic to public during the 44-day war. According to Mr. Taghizadeh, his online debates with representatives of the Armenian diaspora became regular, often stepping beyond the parliamentary discussion format.
Azerbaijan exported 9.1 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the first half of the year, up 36% from a year earlier, the Energy Ministry in Baku said Saturday in an emailed statement.
Decades-long disagreements between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh came to an end in November last year, when the two warring sides agreed to a Russian brokered ceasefire deal that put an end to a 44-day devastating war between Baku and Yerevan.
Azerbaijan exported almost 14 million metric tons of crude and condensate in the first half of 2021, down 4.8% from a year earlier, the country’s Energy Ministry said in an emailed statement.
The interior ministry has directed the concerned departments to inquire about the unlawful entry of Ms Musurkhanim Zairova, having Azerbaijan passport, from Peshawar Airport in October 2017 despite the fact that her name was in blacklist, since it was feared that the said lady was involved in anti-Pakistan activities, while working for some hostile foreign intelligence agency.
The first group of teams affiliated with Azerbaijan’s Emergency Situations arrived Saturday in Turkey to help Ankara with massive forest fires in its southern provinces that have led to deaths and injuries.
Certainly no branch of Armenia's military suffered as severe materiel losses during the 2020 Nagorno-Karbakh War as its artillery and rocket forces.
No form of music tugs at the heartstrings of Azerbaijanis more than the sound of Mugham. This centuries-old musical tradition draws on folklore and oral histories passed down from generation to generation, creating a unique and ‘melancholy’ sound.
Officials from Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Turkish Cyprus offered their condolences to Turkey on Thursday over the massive forest fires in its southern provinces which have claimed the lives of three people.
Pakistan’s parliamentary delegation led by the National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser met with the minister for foreign affairs of Azerbaijan, Jeyhun Bayramov.
Azerbaijan and Israel enjoy strong relations underpinned by several factors, including security, trade, tourism and humanitarian cooperation. Israel is one of the main suppliers of the modern weapons that performed so well during the recent 44-days war when, in fall 2020, Azerbaijan managed to liberate its territories that were formerly occupied by Armenia.
Thirty years after establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, Azerbaijan inaugurated its Trade and Tourism office in Tel Aviv Thursday.
On the night of July 28, 2021, military clashes broke out on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as a result of which three soldiers of the Armenian armed forces were killed and four were injured.
