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During a visit this month to Yerevan, CIA Director William Burns warned Armenia about assisting Russia to evade Western sanctions, including high-technology, imposed in response to the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.

No sooner has the ink dried on the document on gas supply cooperation between Azerbaijan and the European Union than the Kremlin lobby in Europe began to stir, attacking this decision.

The working visit of UN General Assembly President Abdullah Shahid to Armenia has become an occasion for an international scandal, in which this UN official was easily involved with the cunning inherent in the Armenian nation. The provocation did not work, but, as they say, the smell remained.

On June 21, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev paid a two-day official visit to Uzbekistan, where he met with his counterpart, Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to reaching a peace agreement that would help to alleviate Armenia’s relative isolation.

There is a Russian saying, "one learns from one's mistakes". But Otto von Bismarck said: "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes."

One of the most significant developments in the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process since the end of the Second Karabakh War occurred on July 19 when the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan, in an interview with local media, declared that Armenia will withdraw its armed forces from  Karabakh.

The phrase "Nagorno-Karabakh" no longer exists for Brussels. And there is no "status" at all. This horrifying thought came one fine morning to opposition activist Ashotyan, one of the bosses in Sargsyan's Republican Party of Armenia.

The last two weeks have been momentous in the more than year and a half since the end of the war. Armenia's decision to withdraw its troops from Karabakh is barely being discussed in Armenia, and not without reason.

A book, titled “Mysterious Tales of Tabriz”, has been an epicentre of a political polemic as it took mass and social media by storm after a publication by Israel’s Azerbaijani ambassador with it on July 20.

In the face of increasingly more confrontational international politics, this solidarity among the members of the NAM would be critical to ensuring their security and defending their national interests.

The recent visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Uzbekistan marks a new stage in relations between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. The two countries signed a declaration on deepening the strategic partnership between them in many fields.

There has been an unprecedented upsurge of diplomatic activity on the "Euro-Atlantic" track. EU Special Representative Toivo Klaar visited Baku just recently. Then European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen came to Azerbaijan on a snap visit.

European admonitions about a "peaceful solution of the conflict" and "playing nice" are not very believable. This is the song European democrats usually sing before they rob someone. Because those unlucky to be serenaded with it begin to disappear one by one.

Traditionally, of the three nations in the South Caucasus, it was usually Georgia that was perceived as Ukraine’s closest ally.

America’s engagement with Azerbaijan matters more than ever, with 2022 marking the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations. 

More than ten EU member states have sought new or additional supplies of gas from Azerbaijan, the country’s foreign minister has revealed. Jeyhun Bayramov was speaking at the end of an extraordinary 48 hours in Azeri-European Union relations.

We should not forget that Tovuz, Gazakh, and the territories to the west of Ganja are one of the most economically and socially active regions of Azerbaijan.

It looks like Armenian diplomacy has suffered another shameful fiasco after the utter failure of all attempts by official Yerevan to ensure that the negotiation process to achieve a peace treaty continues under the auspices of the co-chairs of the now defunct OSCE Minsk Group.

Ilham Aliyev also pointed out that the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020 was in fact an act of capitulation on Armenia's part. As the defeated side in the war, Armenia undertook the commitments clearly specified in that document.

First the Armenians must break their close ties with Russia. Europe condemns both Armenia and Azerbaijan for the 2020 conflict. Apart from historical cultural relations, Yerevan appears far from the prospects of any form of European integration.

Commenting on the lack of real results in the normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations, the former co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group said that he believed it was obvious that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan would like the relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia to be normalized.