With Russia tied up in Ukraine, the West has stepped to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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The peace process in the South Caucasus is at a crossroads. Russia is seeking to place obstacles in the way of peace with the goal of continuing with the freezing of conflicts that have existed for over three decades. The EU – supported by the US – is seeking to end the frozen conflicts and bring peace to the three nations in the South Caucasus.
No sooner had the representatives of the EU mission got off the plane in Yerevan "Zvartnots" airport and changed their casual shoes to winter boots to take up positions on the frozen conditional border than Armenian armed forces opened fire from these very positions towards Azerbaijan.
The expert communities in Baku and Yerevan continue to discuss the verdict of the UN International Court of Justice on Azerbaijan's and Armenia's appeals.
Criminal oligarch Ruben Vardanyan is becoming Karabakh separatists' "hot potato" they can neither bear to throw away nor hold in their hands.
As the first anniversary of the full-scale war in Ukraine approaches, it is evident that international relations across the globe and the balance of power in the surrounding region have been impacted by the fallout of this war.
The Munich Security Conference continues, but its most intriguing stage for the South Caucasus audiences seems to be over. The Bavarian capital also hosted a meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and a plenary session "Moving Mountains? Building Security in the South Caucasus", with new direct debates between Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan.
Over the past three decades, friendly interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Israel reached the level of strategic alliance, based on mutual understanding on most international issues, and strong defence and energy ties.
Türkiye and Armenia earthquake dialogue is indeed a helpful tool to rekindle relations with the neighbouring country but would be insufficient in this case.
As the war in Ukraine continues, the relationship between the European Union and Russia continues to deteriorate. In recent days, the German authorities raided firms suspected of violating anti-Russian sanctions.
Athousand miles from Russia’s crumbling front line in Donbass, their military and political influence over another distant part of their former empire may be strengthening.
We have new information about Ruben Vardanyan, a Russian billionaire of Armenian origin, who has been living illegally in Karabakh, where he recently declared himself "state minister", since last fall.
Throughout 2022, Baku pursued a more activist foreign policy due to developments in the South Caucasus and the surrounding regions.
Armenian media are reporting that the runaway Russian billionaire Ruben Vardanyan, who was smuggled to Armenia by Russian peacekeepers via secret routes on February 6, has been returned to Khankendi.
An Israeli medical delegation helped correct the facial appearance of dozens of wounded Azerbaijani soldiers.
The Iranian regime and its dominant force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, continue their information and propaganda war against Azerbaijan.
Hamstrung by bloated bureaucracy, riddled with nepotism and corrupt practices of the most egregious nature and completely out of its depth in setting the global agenda, UNESCO is fast falling into a state of intractable disrepute from which there seems no immediate salvation.
President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola sent a letter to the Speaker of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova. We obtained a photocopy of this letter from credible sources.
Azerbaijan sent the largest number of rescue workers. It is quite logical. Azerbaijani and Turkish peoples are fraternal nations with common linguistic and ethnic roots.
On 9th February the OSCE Permanent Council was supposed to discuss and condemn a deadly armed attack against the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Iran, which happened on 27th January. The debate did not occur when it was scheduled on 2nd February.
The wicked attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran has done nothing to deter Azerbaijan’s growing friendship with Israel.
Iranian diplomacy has once again embarrassed itself. Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Abbas Badakhshan Zohouri took part in the discussions on "Armenian-Iranian relations in the context of common interests," where he made a whole series of absurd statements.
The spread of false information and propaganda by Armenians with the aim of misleading the international community and avoiding accountability for their illegal activities on the internationally recognized territories of Azerbaijan is a well-known issue.
As Russia and Iran grow weaker while China and Turkey are mired in economic crises, Israel is shifting its diplomatic focus to the Caucasus and Central Asia.
