I wanted a study that would capture person-to-person relations, and all the more so because of the vibrant community life in Baku.
We believe that warmongering political parties no longer have a place in Armenia, because the harmful era when the Karabakh issue was misused as a means for regime change has ended.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov and his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde exchanged letters on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Azerbaijan and Sweden.
The delegation led by Chairman of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC Javid Gurbanov met with CEO of Austrian Federal Railways Andreas Matthä, the press service of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC reports.
The shift in the geography of container shipments due to the current geopolitical and economic situation has led to a reorientation of cargo flows from the west to the east, as well as to the south.
The parents of the Armenian military personnel detained in Azerbaijan blocked the road along which the opposition motorcade rally was moving toward Gyumri.
The central Asian country is seeking to upgrade its existing energy infrastructure to export more gas to Europe, its energy minister says.
Azerbaijan’s culinary attractions came into the spotlight at the Inaugural International Culinary Festival, organised by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in Shusha, Azerbaijan.
Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan blatantly violated diplomatic decorum: not only did he essentially reveal the subject of the closed-door talks with the authorized representative of the Azerbaijani government, Assistant to the President Hikmet Hajiyev in Brussels, he also deliberately distorted the nature of the talks.
On April 29, Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan, became the first post-Soviet leader to publicly distance himself from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is the most recent and clearest example of how Russia’s southern neighbors gradually are carving out a more independent stance on the current war.
For Azerbaijan to meet gas demand in the Balkans, billions in new investments – and patience – will be required.
The BTC pipeline is a transport line for Azerbaijani oil from the Caspian Sea to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey, and then to European markets via the Mediterranean Sea.
Since the very first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Turkey has become one of the conflict’s central actors. Ankara has explicitly criticized Moscow, closed the Bosporus and the Dardanelles to warships, and has kept providing essential political and military aid to Ukraine.
The West encourages Armenia's permissiveness. Armenia is allowed what no other state in the world is allowed.
Armenia's Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan said that no plans have been made yet for a meeting between Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
Those who used to say that "Karabakh is Armenia", the journalist stresses, now agree that "Karabakh is Azerbaijan."
Sergei Markov, Director of the Institute for Political Studies, believes that with the establishment of a lasting and sustainable peace, the region as a whole is bound to be transformed from a territory of confrontation into a territory of friendship and joint development.
According to a number of statements made by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan is working on lawsuits not only against Armenia, but also against companies from "third countries" that collaborated with the aggressors and invaders.
The issue of the enclaves was never raised during the talks with Baku, Armenia's Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan said at the briefing after a government meeting, speaking about the terms of the peace treaty with Azerbaijan.
Anti-Azerbaijan propaganda campaigns in Russia are another concern; some individuals have openly discussed the possibility of “a tactical nuclear missile attack” against Baku.
Colonel General Karim Valiyev, First Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, inspected the combat readiness of the military units stationed in Kalbajar District, the Ministry of Defense reports.
One has to wonder why the opposition is raging in the streets if it recognizes the new reality in the region. The answer is actually quite simple.
The Russo-Ukrainian war, the extensive sanctions against Russia that the West adopted in response, and the growing possibility that European border states will block east-west transit routes traversing Russian territory into Europe, including the so-called Northern Corridor of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), are all having far-reaching implications for the landlocked countries of Central Asia as well as the South Caucasus.
‘Frozen conflicts’ in Georgia and between Armenia and Azerbaijan could relapse into violence, but there is also an opening for a diplomatic reset.
- Aliyev says Turkic world is emerging as a major center of influence
- Baku hosts Turkic World Week honouring landmark 1926 Turkological Congress
- EU envoy holds talks in Baku ahead of high-level engagement with South Caucasus
- Europe must not lose Azerbaijan: Oleksiy Goncharenko on the risks of confrontation between Baku and the Council of Europe
- A leader forged by patience and victory
