On June 8–10, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov paid a two-day visit to Yerevan, where he met with Armenian leaders and attended a foreign ministerial session of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
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The legal foundation of the temporary presence of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Karabakh is presently hinging on the 10 November 2020 trilateral declaration, yet its mandate remains shrouded in what one may call "constructive ambiguity".
With its recent deepwater exploration success in the Black Sea and prominent geographic location for interregional hydrocarbon pipelines, Türkiye can play a material role in shaping the geopolitical landscape today, especially in the natural gas sector.
President of Azerbaijan pointed out that the Shusha Declaration had been signed by the leaders of Azerbaijan and Turkey 100 years after the conclusion of the Treaty of Kars.
Analyzing the situation in Armenia over the past six months, one comes to the conclusion that everyone is against everyone there, and it would only take a spark to push the country to a domestic strife.
The second Karabakh war delivered a knockout punch to the internationals who spent nearly 30 years trying to get Armenia and Azerbaijan to hold peace talks.
Azerbaijan blocked a Russian state news agency after it published pro-Armenian articles; now Moscow is hitting back, threatening Azerbaijani state media for being pro-Ukraine.
The Russia-Ukraine war disrupted global supply chains and weakened economies worldwide, but it spells opportunity for Azerbaijan, the hinge of Europe and Asia.
Because Moscow is focused on its war in Ukraine, the European Union has hosted two meetings with the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan simultaneously to press for an agreement on border delimitation between the two and to exclude Russia from the talks, Russian experts say.
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Tofig Zulfugarov shared some details of his Q&A meeting with a Western diplomat.
Azerbaijan is no stranger to double games, intrigues and provocations of both its closest neighbours and formal allies and partners. In this sense, our country has literally gone through fire and water and has gained practical experience in solving these problems and perceives new tricky situations cold-bloodedly enough.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the South Caucasus has been unable to find a model for regional cooperation or form regional organizations.
On 3 June, the Russian state agency Ria Novosti published an interview with a representative of the Armenian separatist movement in Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Before Russia launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine in late February and sent grain markets into a tizzy, Azerbaijani leadership was already rolling up its sleeves to bolster the country’s food security both in the short and long term.
As Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to preoccupy the Kremlin, there are signs of hope in the South Caucasus.
The appeal was made by Vaqif Sadiqov, the Azerbaijan ambassador to the EU, who was speaking at an event designed to help promote good neighbourly relations in the often-troubled region. The diplomat was responding to some criticism of his country’s record on issues like press freedom.
Brussels does not and is not going to coordinate its actions with Moscow in the issue of normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, an anonymous senior EU official told Radio Liberty.
Azerbaijan is ready to ship gas to new European customers, President Ilham Aliyev said, at a time when Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and a slew of sanctions are significantly increasing interest in alternatives to Russian gas.
The US Department of State has issued its traditional International Religious Freedom Reports, in which it for the first time (!!) focused closely on the problem of the destruction of Azerbaijani monuments in Karabakh.
The scandal is gaining momentum. The press is seething. And already some MPs are demanding that the Bundestag hearings be reopened and that Olaf Scholz be summoned.
On May 22, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and President Ilham Aliyev, respectively, met in Brussels for talks under mediation by Charles Michel, the president of the European Council.
The consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have created further incentives and necessities for closer bonds between the EU and Azerbaijan.
Today, 28 May, Azerbaijan is marking one of the most striking and significant days in its history –the 104th anniversary of the founding of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR)—the first democratic and secular state with a parliamentary form of government in the Muslim World.
Tens of millions of Azerbaijanis living throughout the world celebrate today the Independence Day, which marks the anniversary of the establishment of the entire Muslim World's first democratic statehood - the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on May 28, 1918.
