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Instead of exercising pressure on my country – which is committed to the promotion of peace and security in the region – the international community should urge Armenia to fulfill all its obligations, writes Azerbaijan’s ambassador to the UK.

The UK’s recent integrated review claims that Russia is expected to be “more active around the wider European neighbourhood”, seeking strategic advantage through exploiting and undermining democratic systems and open economies.

If we’re looking to find a comprehensive answer to this question, we must list all the reasons, one by one. Just like in the famous story. There are forty reasons the canon didn’t fire. One of the reasons is the lack of gunpowder. If we list all the reasons to answer the question why there are no patrons of the arts in Azerbaijan, we’ll end up with a long saga.

The last several months have been marked by an intensifying campaign of pressure on Azerbaijan, especially from Western circles and media. This is nothing new to us—we are all too well aware of the sources and the reasons.

American congressmen, lobbying for the interests of Armenia, dumbfounded American taxpayers with another initiative coming from the Armenian lobby. The bill presented by Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jackie Speyer and Adam Schiff contains a proposal to allocate more than $ 100 million to Armenia for reforms in the economy and security, as well as for the reconstruction of the "NKR" which ceased to exist after the Second Karabakh war.

The western world often leaves Azerbaijan’s status as its own republic out of the conversation of regional diplomatic solutions, tending to view its strong ties to Turkey as mutually inclusive to Ankara’s agendas. This perception guides some of the rhetoric regarding the Karabakh conflict as well as the approach the incumbent U.S. President should take in U.S.-Turkey, Caucasus policy moving forward. Previous rhetoric’s flaws will need a new light shed to move toward lasting peace solutions. 

The Iran-China agreement is important and it will be beneficial economically for both Tehran and Beijing. The agreement may also strengthen ties between not just China and Iran but also strengthen trilateral cooperation between China, Russia and Iran.

Separatism, as a political practice – especially if it’s a proxy movement – heavily relies on external support for attainment of some sort of legitimacy. The heads of separatist movements strive to build bonds with lawmakers in Western countries to voice what they consider their right to be independent from the country they broke up from.

The region’s three economies face distinct challenges as Azerbaijan follows up on its military victory, Armenia licks its wounds and Georgia copes with political turmoil.

What is the Turkic World and what role can it play in modernity, if historically these countries, connected by the language and the common ethnic roots, belonged to different empires, military blocs and even civilizations?

It may have been the subject of news headlines around the world in recent weeks, but Xinjiang was not on the agenda for an informal meeting of the Turkic Council on

The Turkic Council, officially the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States, declared the city of Turkistan in southern Kazakhstan as the spiritual capital of the Turkic world at their informal summit March 31. 

Russia builds up military forces on its border with Ukraine, a dearth of Pentagon nominees from Biden rankles Congress, and what the U.S. military can learn from drone warfare in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as Hungary to participate in informal Turkish Council summit.

Turkey’s support for Azerbaijan in its latest war with Armenia could have much greater ramifications, with Turkey using Azerbaijan’s geographic position as a springboard to reach out to Central Asia.

I’m sure many of us have heard this sentence. Everyone talks about the beauty of the past, proud of having lived in “the nicer times”. But why were people more sincere, love purer, and friendships truer in the past?

In recent months, Azerbaijan has been at the center of efforts to mediate between its two allies. "We have and are still working to build a bridge between our two strategic friends, Israel and Turkey," a senior Azerbaijani official told Israel Hayom.

The nature of warfare is dynamic. It endlessly renews itself to overcome the challenges presented by different terrains, enemies, situations, ideologies and technologies.

Indeed, one of the ways that Azerbaijan can continue to buttress itself against Iranian aggression is through Baku's strong relationships with Israel, the US and Turkey. But it is more than mutual threats that bring Israel and Azerbaijan together.

Israel and Turkey share a number of areas where they can collaborate to minimise Iranian expansionism, but it will require deft diplomacy and concessions.

Even Russia, arguably the biggest power in the neighborhood, could not prevent Turkey from giving its decisive support to Azerbaijan during the recent Second Karabakh War. Turkish troops are now stationed on Azerbaijani soil alongside Russian.

The new digital economy of Central Asia and Azerbaijan will assist resolving the issues related to the inclusiveness of economic development. It will allow the residents of remote areas to find work, eliminate gender inequality, and contribute to the integration of ethnic minorities.

“The idea that the ‘one nation, two states’ rhetoric used by Turkey and Azerbaijan should be revised as ‘one nation, six states’ has been defended in the region (among Turkic states),” Tomar said, adding that it was a critical development.

One of the important moments on the eve of the Second Karabakh War was our society settling in two different mindsets. One is a nationalist position in which the national interests supported by the majority come to the fore, justifying the war, and the other is a pacifist position that claims to be based on human values, an anti-war voice that is loud enough despite being in the minority.