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Despite a shroud of secrecy, Israel and Azerbaijan share robust relations; Home to 30,000 Jews, the Shia Muslim-majority country’s strong ties with the Jewish state forge on.

The UN Security Council meeting that took place the day before at the request of Paris and Yerevan ended in the expected fiasco of the Armenian-French adventure.

The emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, convened by France at Armenia's request, ended with no document adopted.

Since the closure of the Lachin road by Azerbaijan in response to an armed accident on 15 June this year, tensions around the Armenian-populated area in Karabakh currently controlled by the Russian peacekeeping forces, have been brimming.

Last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared the end of the world order that emerged as a result of the Cold War. He expressed this opinion while delivering a lecture at Johns Hopkins University. "What we are experiencing now is more than a test of the durability of the world order formed after the Cold War. It is the end of it," the US diplomatic chief said.

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been a major challenge for security and posed obstacles for regional economic and political integration in the South Caucasus.

Russia’s war against Ukraine has wrought major upheaval across Eurasia, forcing countries to search for new partners as they seek security and stability.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on "Nagorno-Karabakh", as expected, was marked by a series of at least dubious statements by Ms. Yuri Kim, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs at the US Department of State.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has arrived in Dushanbe to attend the meeting of heads of Central Asian states in the capital of Tajikistan as a guest of honor.

While trade with neighboring Azerbaijan might improve the lot of Armenians, it would remove their leaders’ raison d’être.

The future of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations is dangerously uncertain at the moment.

A spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova announced that Russia expressed a diplomatic demarche to Azerbaijan due to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s statement about elections in "new Russian regions".

With a UN mandate, the OSCE Minsk Group has engaged in negotiations with Armenia and Azerbaijan for 30 years with the aim of settling the conflict while considering the Armenian community in Karabakh.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gave an interview to Armenia's Public Television. Prime minister demonstrated good oratory skills, a high degree of casuistry, and verbal cunning, i.e. everyone was convinced that he stood still at the helm of the state. 

The territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has never been a purely inter-state matter between the two countries.

Claims that Azerbaijan is carrying out genocide against Armenians are deliberately erroneous. Just as erroneous is the denial of the genocide that is being carried out against 45 million Ukrainians.

The European Union is once again demonstrating double standards. Almost concurrently with the election farce in Khankendi, another pseudo-election show was taking place in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Events on the Iranian track are developing at a breakneck speed. First, there was the conversation between Nikol Pashinyan and Iranian President Raisi, in the course of which the Armenian Prime Minister never received assurances of military support against Azerbaijan.

What we heard from European Union (EU) foreign policy spokesperson Nabila Massrali is a blatant and shameful example of the notorious double morality.

Everything brings to mind those days of 2020. There was a lot of movement all over the country back then, too. After the Tovuz fights, Armenia's provocations persisted. Almost every day the ceasefire was violated on the border. Azerbaijan took actions to be ready for anything at any moment.

The official website of the Rabbinical Center of Europe sustains that it condemns “the Armenian leaders for using Holocaust rhetoric in a campaign against their neighbor, Azerbaijan.”

Armenia is preparing for a final break with Russia - this has been stated by at least two 'talking heads' from the inner circle of Nikol Pashinyan.

The separatists in Khankendi have announced the date when the so-called 'parliament' will elect a new 'president' of this unrecognized entity: September 9th, a Saturday.

When people are in a dire need for humanitarian aid, how it gets into their hands is immaterial. Remember the Israelites who were wandering in the desert?