The European Union has offered Armenia and Azerbaijan assistance with border delimitation and demarcations, and support for much needed confidence-building measures following days of tension between the two countries.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stephane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America) called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to de-escalate the situation and to begin negotiations to delimitate and demarcate their border peacefully.
How far is President Joe Biden’s administration willing to go in a dispute in a remote, mountainous ethnic enclave? Will it become something like Barack Obama’s adventures in Syria? The American people are about to find out.
During the Sunday meeting with Shahin Mustafayev, Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, who had traveled to Iran with the President of State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and a business delegation, congratulated Azerbaijan on its National Day, SHANA reported.
The Azerbaijani president said on Sunday a part of the Zangezur corridor that will connect his country with Turkey should pass through Armenia.
Azerbaijani Vice President Hikmet Hajiyev on Saturday said Baku welcomes the National Movement Party's (MHP) initiative to build a school in the key Azerbaijani city of Shusha, which was liberated during clashes between Baku and Yerevan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in November.
ILGA-Europe on May 17 published its annual “Rainbow Europe Map and Index, rating 49 European countries on their legal and policy situations for LGBT+ people.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on Saturday to transfer the operations of the country's three mineral mines to two Turkish companies.
Ali Asadov said that "it had been impossible to delimit and demarcate the border with Armenia since the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan was occupied by the Armenian armed forces".
Six months have passed since Azerbaijan abruptly ended an almost 30-year war with Armenia. The final 44-day blow, dealt in an overwhelming display of pyrotechnic proportions, restored Baku’s control over seven districts occupied by Armenia since 1993-1994.
You might remember that Pashinyan recently danced Yalli in Shusha. The moment I saw the way he was dancing, I said that these people were alien to this geography—I even wrote about it. Everywhere in the Caucasus, people dance Yalli holding hands, but in Anatolia, they dance it shoulder to shoulder.
The victory of Azerbaijan in the 2020 Second Karabakh War revealed a new triangular axis in the Greater Middle East. Turkey, Israel and Azerbaijan have developed strategic partnerships over the last two decades.
Recent developments on the Armenia/Azerbaijan border are both dangerous and worrying. Immediate de-escalation is needed. The European Union urges both sides to refrain from any further military deployment and actions.
The virtual conference organized by the State Committee on Work with Diaspora on the occasion of "May 28 - Republic Day" was attended by about 367 compatriots from 58 countries, including heirs of the Republicans living in different countries, as well as relatives of the heroes of the Second Karabakh War, representatives of the “Karabakh is Azerbaijan” platform, diaspora volunteers and diaspora youth.
The Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Pakistan, Ali Alizada, while recalling the 44-day Patriotic War against Armenia, said it has demonstrated his country’s power, resolve and unity. It showed that the Azerbaijani people will never put up with injustice.
Azerbaijan crowned its Republic Day with victory ending nearly 3-decade occupation of its lands by Armenian forces.
Republic Day (Respublika Günü) honours the date on which the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) was founded on 28 May 1918.
On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Azerbaijan as you celebrate Republic Day and mark the 1918 establishment of the first democratic government in the Muslim world.
The Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan — the first Arab Christian to hold an ambassadorial rank in Israel — delivering a searing message to the leaders of Hamas in a video message on Thursday, less than a week after a ceasefire took hold between the Jewish state and the Palestinian terrorist group.
Today, Azerbaijanis are commemorating the 103rd anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR). They will celebrate this momentous event in 2021 with greater joy this year, after the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh and the occupied territories fresh in the minds of the Azerbaijani people.
Establishment of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) on 28 May 1918 was a historic event and a glorious page in Azerbaijan’s history. Being a parliamentary republic that was built based on political pluralism and a multi-party system, granting women the right to vote before most western democracies, ADR was first of its kind in the entire Muslim East.
The one-month YASHAT charity marathon was announced on April 29. The marathon was organized at the initiative of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the YASHAT Foundation, with the financial support and organization of the Fund for Support to Azerbaijani Diaspora. The amount of funds raised during the month will be made public shortly.
The situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the area of the Gegharkunik and Syunik border regions has remained tense since May 12.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, making his second visit to Baku and Yerevan this year, says that Tehran supports the territorial integrity of both Armenia and Azerbaijan and does not want to see any border changes in the region, especially along its own northern frontier.
