Officials of Qatar Chamber and Azerbaijan’s Board of SME Business Development Agency held a meeting yesterday to discuss ways to enhance commercial ties between Qatar and the southwestern Asian country.
Many commentators on the Caucasus have suggested that the real sticking point in the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijan border is the area around the Lachin corridor which links Armenia with what was once the Armenian statelet of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Yasir Rakhbardin, who is in charge of water supplies in the Iranian province of Western Azerbaijan, says that Lake Urmiya, on which the region has long depended, may soon cease to exist, a development that will likely produce both a humanitarian disaster and more conflict between Baku and Tehran.
Baku International Sea Trade Port CJSC (Port of Baku) has seen a significant increase of 21% in total cargo volumes during the first nine months.
Although the two countries do not share a border, Turkey supports the Azeri position in the conflict over Armenia.
Alireza Haghighian, assistant to Iran’s foreign minister and director general for the Eurasian region’s affairs, who attended the meeting on behalf of the Islamic Republic supported regional cooperation, especially in fields of economy, trade, transportation and transit as well as cooperation among countries in the form of the 3+3 initiative, the Iranian foreign ministry said.
Turkey's highly publicised arrest of alleged Iranian agents is the latest sign of growing tensions between the two neighbors, as Turkey expands its influence in the Caucasus region at Iran's expense.
The latest diplomatic crisis between Iran and Azerbaijan has brought potential conflicts of interest between the two nations to the table. However, we still do not know how this could affect the development of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and if it will really represent a critical point in maintaining the status quo in the region.
Russian oil and gas company Lukoil and Malaysia’s Petronas have changed their previously announced agreement related to Lukoil’s acquisition of an interest in the Shah Deniz natural gas project in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea from Petronas.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stressed the need start the process of delimitation and demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border as soon as possible.
Shahin Guliyev started attending the Centre for Inclusive Education and Child Development in the Agjabadi district of Azerbaijan in 2015 when he was 13. Shahin has Down syndrome, and, at the time, his perceptual, social, self-care and motor skills were those of a three-year-old.
Armenia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that Azerbaijan had begun intensively shelling its military positions in Armenia's Gegharkunik province, the TASS news agency reported.
Russia and Turkey opened a joint centre on Saturday to observe a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh that was agreed following a flare-up in the conflict in the region last year, Azerbaijan's defence ministry said on Saturday.
Referring to the Karabakh minefield maps recently provided by Yerevan, Huseynov made the remarks in an interview with Azerbaijan’s Xalq Gazeti newspaper.
GemZA Group has been operating since 2005 and has clients in Azerbaijan, eastern Europe, Central Asia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
It is high time for the international community to reconsider the role of the Minsk Group in the post-war peace process between Baku and Yerevan and should either dissolve the institution entirely or reform/restructure it to effectively address the negotiation process, writes Vasif Huseynov in this op-ed.
According to some estimates, there are at least 110 million landmines across the globe, and each year about 10,000 people are either killed or injured by these mines.
Minsk Mayor Vladimir Kukharev met with Azerbaijani ambassador to Belarus Ulvi Bakhshaliyev on 8 December to discuss the implementation of the project to erect a monument to Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi in the Belarusian capital.
Asia & Europe – Data and insights company Kantar has been selected by the Azerbaijani television industry to supply technology for the launch of a new TV audience measurement service in the country.
On December 15, Brussels will host the sixth summit of the EU and Eastern Partnership (EaP) country leaders – the first official summit between the bloc and its eastern members since 2017. The relations between the sides have evolved along different paths since the launch of the EaP twelve years ago – writes Vasif Huseynov.
Azerbaijan's large external buffers have been preserved during the pandemic and are supported by the higher oil price.
“Following a trip to hold two meetings [on road transportation] with Azerbaijan and Georgia, we proposed an initiative to the two countries to create a new transit corridor for regional convergence,” Director-General of RMTP Office of International Transit and Transportation Javad Hedayati told ISNA on Tuesday.
The EU is competing with Russia and Turkey for influence in the Caucasus. Finding a way to solve the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan could be key to regional ascendance, writes Nikola Mikovic.
Judges at the United Nations´ top court ordered Azerbaijan on Tuesday to protect all the prisoners it captured during the country's war last year with neighboring Armenia, to prevent incitement of racial hatred against Armenians and to punish vandalism of Armenian cultural heritage.
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