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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Azerbaijan on Thursday with a delegation that included yours truly.

There is no doubt that behind the said edits on the arbitrary extension of the mandate lies the unsatisfied geopolitical ambitions of Emmanuel Macron, who is now instrumentalising the EU to ensure a French presence in the Caucasus as opposed to Russia and Türkiye.

French Ambassador to Azerbaijan Zacharie Gross has finally broken his silence and resurfaced. The head of the Fifth Republic's diplomatic mission posted on Twitter that French MFA reaffirmed that France is fully mobilized to advance peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Qarabağ, ‘Karabakh’ as written in the English language, is the Azerbaijani mountainous region of western Azerbaijan. The city of Ağdam is located in the valley of rivers Kur and Araz, at the Karabakh plateau close to the mountains of Lesser Caucasus, at the altitude of 410-1365 meters above sea level.

History has brought about new opportunities for cooperation and peace in the South Caucasus following the 44-day Karabakh War.

It will be soon reciprocated: pursuing a strategy of pressure on Azerbaijan, the military and economic leader of the South Caucasus region, France risks falling into its own trap.

On October 6, on the sidelines of the first gathering of the European Political Community, historic meetings were held between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as those of France and Turkey in Prague.

From September 2020 to the present day, the Open Society Foundation (Soros Foundation) in Armenia has allocated more than $333,000 in the form of grants for 14 projects during the 44-day war and after it.

The speech of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the CIS summit in Astana will be analyzed and "taken apart" into key points and quotations for a long time to come.

German researcher Dr. Michael Reinhard Heß wrote an open letter of protest to French President Emmanuel Macron, criticizing the latter’s anti-Azerbaijan remarks in the interview to France 2 on October 14 this year.

There are striking parallels between Israeli and Azerbaijani history that underscore the countries’ unique bond.

Russia is worried that the success of European diplomacy in approximating the positions of Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the prospect of a peace agreement before the end of the year, would see it elbowed out of the South Caucasus.

Dozens of soldiers were killed and many more wounded last month when fighting intensified along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Director of the Azerbaijani Centre for Studies of the South Caucasus, political analyst Farhad Mammadov has commented on the statements of French President Emmanuel Macron regarding the latest escalation between Azerbaijan and Armenia in his Telegram channel.

Baku does not believe it is possible for the French government to play any role in the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations given its current attitude, President Ilham Aliyev said, speaking at the meeting of the CIS Heads of State Council.

French President Emmanuel Macron has once again, how shall we put it delicately, put his foot in it.

French President Emmanuel Macron assured in his recent speech that Paris would not let the Armenians down. "Armenia is a country with which we have a unique connection.

It has been a while since the end of the 44-Day Karabakh War, and the image of the traditional mediator in Armenia–Azerbaijan normalization has been shifting.

Recent incidents of audacious attacks on Azerbaijani embassies in Western and European countries indicate that Dashnaks' activities in this direction continue to this day.

Ankara, seeking alternatives to its often tense relations with the West, sees in Central Asia many great opportunities.

Armenia and Azerbaijan seem to be inching toward a comprehensive peace deal by the year-end. The hints in the media have been circulating for months, with various representatives from the Armenian leadership signaling a high probability of progress on the peace deal.

In the negotiations between Yerevan and Baku, the European Union and Turkey enter the scene. Confidence in Russia's mediation is waning, weakened by the Ukrainian conflict. The problem of Karabakh and the Azerbaijani "corridors" to Turkey and Iran.

The Soros network's demarche at the ECHR began after 2012, because the new procedures introduced starting that year specifically stipulated NGO participation in the process of electing ECHR judges.

Starting from the beginning of the 20th century, Armenians repeatedly committed acts of genocide against Azerbaijanis and laid eyes on Azerbaijani territories at different times in history - writes Mazahir Afandiyev - Member of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan