Azerbaijan has pursued a pro-Western multi-vector foreign policy balancing integration and cooperation with NATO and the pursuit of good relations with Russia. Baku’s relations with the Kremlin were, therefore, never as cold and brittle as those encountered by Georgia and Ukraine whose territories were invaded by Russia in 2008 and 2014 respectively.
Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Ivan Krupko met with Chairman of the Food Safety Agency of Azerbaijan Goshgar Takhmazli and Azerbaijani Agriculture Minister Inam Imdad oglu Kerimov in Baku on 13 April.
Israeli doctors flew to Azerbaijan in March to operate on 150 Azerbaijani soldiers who needed surgery to restore their eyesight. Further, Israel has offered to help rebuild Nagorno-Karabakh territory, the Armenian-occupied territory where Azerbaijan regained control following last fall’s war.
Moody's today took rating actions on five Azeri banks, namely, International Bank of Azerbaijan, Kapital Bank, Xalq Bank, Bank Respublika, and Bank of Baku.
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has left for Azerbaijan on a visit from Minsk National Airport, BelTA has learned.
The 5-Star COVID-19 Airport Safety Rating is a top recognition of the effectiveness of the hygiene and safety measures introduced at Heydar Aliyev International Airport to protect their customers and staff against the spread of coronavirus.
On April 2, the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action demonstrated debris of tactical missiles Iskander, which, Azerbaijan argues, were used by Armenia during hostilities over Nagorno-Karabakh in the autumn of 2020.
LNG supplies to Greece in the first quarter of 2021 more than halved year on year, as pipeline deliveries via the Southern Gas Corridor began and sky-high spot LNG prices saw cargoes diverted to Asia.
As a young woman in 1993, Azerbaijani Ramziya Sharifova waded across a river into Iran with her family to escape Armenian forces capturing her village, then watched as they burned it to the ground.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday that he is ready to sign a peace deal on Karabakh but does not see any reciprocal moves by Yerevan.
Here, Open Access Government discovers the environmental protection priorities of Mukhtar Babayev, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan is waiting for a reply to its question about the Iskander-M missiles that Armenia had allegedly fired at the city of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday.
Restrictions were then eased, but reimposed during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Canadian arms control group Project Ploughshares said air strike video released by Baku at the time indicated drones were equipped with imaging and targeting systems made by L3Harris Wescam, Canada-based unit of L3Harris Technologies Inc. Turkey's military exports to its ally Azerbaijan jumped six-fold last year.
The unofficial summit of the Turkic Council attended by the Hungarian prime minister and the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as current and former presidents of Kazakhstan, met on March 31. The group is scheduled to meet for its eighth formal summit in the fall of 2021 in Turkey.
Aleksandr Averin, a Russian who served with the pro-Moscow forces in the Donbass, says that “the Ukrainians have found inspiration in the recent war in Karabakh” and that they “feel themselves “a little like Azerbaijanis” especially because like the latter, they too now have drones they can use against any invader.
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko will pay a visit to Azerbaijan on 13 April, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.
Turkey’s communications director said on Sunday that international organizations, particularly UNESCO, need to look at Karabakh without being hypocritical.
Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun and the representatives of Turkic Council member countries on Sunday visited the city of Aghdam in Azerbaijan, which was liberated from the Armenian occupation.
During an online conference on the current situation in the South Caucasus, hosted by Rossiya Segodnya news agency, the executive director of the “Eurasian Development” center Stanislav Pritchin and Alexander Karavayev, a researcher with the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economics, presented their joint report on the “Settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the development of the South Caucasus: prospects and challenges.”
Azerbaijan Society of Maine shares culture through concert The 50-person show featured a husband-and-wife musical duo that normally tours internationally.
Five Azerbaijani veterans wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh have been fitted with prosthesis in Turkey as part of an aid project.
In March 2012, unnamed U.S. diplomats and military intelligence officials exposed Israel Defense Forces and Mossad activities in Azerbaijan, a Muslim country that borders Iran. “The Israelis have bought an airfield,” a senior administration official was quoted as telling Foreign Policy magazine, “and the airfield is called Azerbaijan.”
Everything’s coming up roses for Turkey’s thriving drone industry, but a cash-strapped economy and technological challenges may slow further progress.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev receives Turkish Ambassador in Baku Erkan Ozoral.