The Ukrainian center will implement several tasks, including the development of cooperation in tourism and tourism and resort areas between Ukraine and Azerbaijan.
Over the last several weeks, military exercises by Iran near the Azerbaijani border, by Turkey and Azerbaijan in Nakhichevan, and by Georgia with Azerbaijan and Turkey have further unsettled a region that as Rhythm of Eurasia journalist Irina Marinina says, was already “difficult to call completely stabilized.”
Sad news came on October 15. Georgi Vanyan, well-known Armenian human rights activist, head of the Caucasus Center for Peacekeeping Initiatives, died from coronavirus in a Tbilisi hospital. He was only 58 years old.
A year after a deadly conflict over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region that killed thousands and led to accusations of war crimes from both sides, arch foes Armenia and Azerbaijan have shown some signs that they are open to improving relations.
In the first months after the signing of the trilateral ceasefire statement, the Armenian media and representatives of the Russian peacekeepers tirelessly trumpeted about "more and more civilians returning to Karabakh."
The situation around the Iran-Azerbaijan relations remains one of the most discussed topics in the region. The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to bring absurd, ungrounded accusations against Azerbaijan.
Illegal Armenian armed groups in the territory of Azerbaijan in the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeepers have committed a new terrorist act.
Azerbaijan Airlines has reached provisional fleet-modernisation agreements with Boeing and Airbus covering the airline’s long-haul and short-haul types.
Azerbaijan's energy minister told the Reuters news service October 14 that a new agreement was signed to deliver natural gas from the country's offshore Shah Deniz field to Turkey.
Tensions are flaring between Baku and Tehran after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched widespread military drills in a show of force along their shared border. Iran’s exercises mark the first time in Azerbaijan’s thirty years of independence that a foreign state has directly threatened its sovereignty.
Azerbaijan has said that it is looking to repair its diplomatic ties with Iran through dialogue after the two fell out earlier this month following a series of allegations that the Israeli military was present in Azerbaijan and that Iran's military supported Armenia in last year's conflict.
“The reasons for what it is happening with Iran is not because of our relations with some other country, because our foreign policy is very open, transparent, stable and as I said independent”, said President Ilham Aliyev in his interview with the Italian La Repubblica newspaper.
Azerbaijan said Wednesday it has agreed with Iran to resolve their diplomatic crisis through dialogue, weeks after ties soured over allegations that Israel’s military was active in Azerbaijan.
With the bar for success high, proceedings will likely turn into a forum to air grievances, throw mud at one another, and ultimately reinforce division between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. It is the exact opposite of what is currently needed; lawfare rather than diplomacy.
The illegal settlement of Armenian nationals in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan in the aftermath of Armenia's military aggression early in the 1990s was rather a continuation than a beginning of their long-standing intention to change demography across the South Caucasus in support of their own myth of the "Greater Armenia".
Kalın named the issues that are set to be discussed at a bilateral meeting to be held within the framework of the G-20 leaders' summit in Rome on Oct. 30-31.
Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB) kicked off its participation at Expo 2020 Dubai with an event dedicated to encouraging travellers to take another look at what the country has to offer as the ‘new normal’ emerges for world travel.
In just a couple of days, Russia’s biggest oil and gas company announced it would mark a significant footprint in Caspian gas and crude oil exploration in Azerbaijan. Lukoil has bought shares from BP and Petronas, following approval from Azeri authorities.
Minister Bayramov confirms Azerbaijan’s firm and consistent stance on Serbia’s territorial integrity
Aleksandar Vucic met today with Jeyhun Bayramov in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic. An important meeting between the president of Serbia with the minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan has been held.
Azerbaijan, a Eurasian country at the border of Eastern Europe and western Asia, increased its production of natural gas by 36%, or more than 200 billion cubic feet (Bcf), between 2017 and 2019.
Tehran remains categorically against the opening of any corridor between Azerbaijan proper and Nakhichevan through the Zengezur corridor, but its pledge to help Armenia build a corridor between Armenia and Iran could unintentionally make progress on the Azerbaijani one possible.
The conference “Overcoming the challenges of landmines in Azerbaijan’s quest for peace, development and reconstruction” was held on Tuesday, 12 October 2021 at the Park Inn Hotel in Baku.
A picture is worth a thousand policy briefs. On Oct. 4, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, mugged for the cameras. Beaming before reporters, he stroked, patted, and put a loving arm around a Harop, a kamikaze drone manufactured by Israel.
If we disregard the propaganda and various media announcements typical of publicity campaigns and try to distill the economic gist of Tehran's discontent, we will find that it is about financial flows. It is about real currency that Iranian companies received from direct and shadow trade with Armenia.
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