Emmanuel Macron's team continues to demonstrate its friendship with Armenia and special consideration for the Armenian community in France. An official release from the Élysée Palace announces that the President of the Fifth Republic will meet with co-chairs of the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF) Ara Toranian and Mourad Papazian.
The sharp rise in geopolitical tensions in the Eurasian space last year has tangibly increased the energy crisis, leading to transport and trade disintegration. Despite all this, Baku and Beijing are steadily expanding their economic cooperation.
One of the most intriguing contacts of President Ilham Aliyev at the World Economic Forum in Davos was his meeting with the third richest man of the planet, Indian developer and tycoon Gautam Adani.
The middle corridor through Azerbaijan has previously attracted the attention of specialists as an important international transport artery.
Views and approaches based on a distorted perspective never yield balanced and correct decisions. They often set the stage for new problems, making inconsistency and confusion the norm.
Azerbaijani lawmakers speak to JNS about enhancing bilateral cooperation between the Muslim country and Jewish state ahead of the opening of Baku's embassy in Israel.
While Azerbaijan gets most of the blame for the ongoing crisis in the “Lachin Corridor,” the international community does not see the elephant in the room: Armenia’s shipment of weapons and illegal mining operations through this corridor intended for civilian use.
The Swiss city of Davos hosts the traditional annual World Economic Forum (WEF). This year, the forum, organized under the motto “Cooperation in a fragmented world”, was attended by a record number of participants discussing key issues of global politics and economy.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev recently met with a group of intellectuals from Western Azerbaijan and condemned the transfer of Yerevan back to Armenia in 1918.
Energy-rich Azerbaijan, chafing at Iranian threats, set to open embassy in Tel Aviv, with Israel seeing chance to expand relations with others in region as well.
One might ask, what do historical facts mean to Der Spiegel? The publication follows well-known Armenian historical theories and strategies down to every little detail in order to increase their plausibility. This includes deliberate omissions and false assertions.
Over the 20th century, Corsica lost half of its population to unemployment and economic hardship. Several settlements were built on the island because of tourists, and real estate prices were rising.
The Russian military presence is not everlasting in Armenia. Armenia is moving toward normalizing relations with its neighbors, creating a platform of good-neighborly relations to ensure possible future development.
Amid the backdrop of a common Iranian threat, Azerbaijani lawmakers invited Israeli MKs to visit Israel and deepen ties and strategic partnership.
Amid ongoing tensions in Azerbaijan-Iran relations, a statement by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly, drew the attention of both countries. In an interview with journalists upon his return to Tehran, Ghalibaf, who had met with Sahiba Gafarova, Speaker of Azerbaijan's Milli Majlis, on the sidelines of the 13th plenary session of the APA in Antalya last week, said that "some misunderstandings that have arisen recently in relations with the Republic of Azerbaijan have been resolved."
Building deeper relations with the Arab world is one of the important elements of President Ilham Aliyev's multi-vector foreign policy aimed at securing Azerbaijan's national interests and further strengthening Baku's position in the world.
One wonders if some of the self-professed "masters of information warfare" have at least learned school arithmetic. This is a question we cannot help asking after President Ilham Aliyev's interview with local TV channels: one of the issues discussed was some particularly frisky "experts" accusing Azerbaijan of reselling Russian gas to Europe.
Iran and Turkey share a history of deep rivalry spanning centuries. Where in the medieval and early modern period, they fought expansionist wars in the Middle East, nowadays their competition is more subtle, but nevertheless covers entire regions and numerous countries. Increasingly, one such area is the South Caucasus.
The peacekeeping contingent of the Russians is unable to avoid clashes between Yerevan and Baku over the pro-Armenian separatist region. Moscow would like to replace Armenian PM Pashinyan with its own oligarch. The Kremlin seems increasingly weak in the Caucasus, an effect of the war in Ukraine.
Experts see the decline of Tehran's relations with Baku as a microcosm of the broader failure of President Ebrahim Raisi’s promised strong-neighbourhood agenda.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gave a press conference, opening a new political year for his country. After the holidays, everyone (who has a job) returns to work, and it is high time to set a certain tone for the year, which would help somehow smooth out last year's failures.
The Board of Trustees of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund issued a statement regarding the "blockade" of the Lachin corridor, calling on the UN Secretary General, other international organizations and the concerned states to make immediate efforts for operating the Khojaly airport and "putting in place guarantees for delivering emergency humanitarian aid to the Nagorno-Karabakh population by air."
Having considered all their affairs on the ground completed, the Armenian side has begun to deal with problems in the sky. At first, Moscow-backed "state minister" Ruben Vardanyan threatens to open an airport in Khojaly, and Armenian political analyst Richard Kirakosyan calls for closing Armenian airspace for civil aircraft of Azerbaijan and Türkiye.
One of the factors encouraging the French to awaken activity in the Caucasus region is its traditional anti-Anglo-Saxon orientation. France has no interest in strengthening the Anglo-American tandem in the South Caucasus from weakening the Russian influence standpoint. This rivalry has a long history, and its geography spans the entire world.
