In an article for El Universal, a leading Mexican publication, international politics and security expert Talya Iscan has accused the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) of inciting Armenia and compromising the security in the South Caucasus.
It was recently announced in Azerbaijan that elections will be held in the country early, following the Azerbaijani military’s victorious campaign against the successionist regime in Khenkendi, which permitted Azerbaijan to reclaim all of the Karabakh region that was illegally occupied by Armenia in violation of four UN Security Council resolutions over the course of thirty years.
After a series of anti-Azerbaijani attacks in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Baku suspended its membership in this organization. We will attempt to explore the reasons and underlying motives for this harsh reaction of Azerbaijani parliamentary diplomacy.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has called on the Azerbaijani public to discuss new goals of the national idea:
2023 ended with positive notes for the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process, but the new year has so far failed to maintain the momentum.
Most importantly, all these three countries are already facing violations of their own territorial integrity and occupation of their territories.
The Azerbaijani delegation has suspended its participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), protesting the double standards applied to our country. Azerbaijan did not wait for the conclusion of the Monitoring Committee's paperwork.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has called on the international community "to play a role in protecting Armenian cultural heritage in the territories that have come under Azerbaijani control".
What enhances Iran’s presence and influence is the US reluctance to respond to its actions even in cases of aggression where it is directly involved.
The French Parliament and government are showing rare unanimity with President Macron.
The chronicle of participation of Azerbaijani MPs in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is painfully reminiscent of a record of rowdy scandals on formal grounds out of the blue.
France continues to pursue its dead-end neocolonial foreign policy.
The Ukrainian European Pravda published a telling story, which was immediately picked up by Simonyan's Sputnik.
As previously reported, the French Senate has adopted a resolution calling for introducing economic sanctions against the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The thirty-year occupation of Azerbaijani lands by Armenia fits into the "democratic" logic of Paris and the EU, but they have strong objections to the return of those lands to Azerbaijan and threaten Baku with penalties. Let's see what lies behind this affliction or audacity.
UAE President Seikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan paid his first official visit to the South Caucasus to Azerbaijan on January 9. This visit took place following a decision to hold COP29 in Azerbaijan during the COP28 summit in the UAE in 2023.
"Armenia taking the path of integration with the West does not rule out the possibility that in the near future they will face the Georgian scenario of 2008 or, if they go further, the Ukrainian scenario of 2014."
Under President Ilham Aliyev's leadership since 2003, Azerbaijan has bolstered its standing and image not only in the South Caucasus region but also on the global stage. It has established mutually beneficial bilateral relations with leading global and regional powers, as well as with international organizations.
In the last three decades, relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the State of Israel have been developing more and more intensively. Relations have reached the level of strategic partnership. Some analysts describe the alliance between Baku and Tel Aviv with the simple phrase “oil for weapons”.
Restoration of the territorial integrity and state control (sovereignty) over territories is a critical component of every nation’s national security strategy. Not all of states around the globe could attain the integrity of their internationally recognized territories.
The world order has been brought to a fragile state, and few doubt that the process is threateningly escalating in negative semantics. Many are now engaging in an in-depth thought process to find the root causes of this fragile state of the global system in order to take appropriate action to save the situation.
Now it is official: there will be no observation mission of the European Parliament (EP) at the early presidential elections in Azerbaijan on February 7.
The organizations that are supposed to represent France's "soft power", in particular, its leading media, valiantly insist on embarrassing themselves on the Azerbaijani track.
The ongoing crisis in the world has changed the traditional world geopolitics, therefore states are searching for reliable partners on furthering their foreign policy in various regions.
