2020 was a tumultuous year in the South Caucasus region that saw a widespread of COVID-19 pandemic and a new war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
On July 27, the parliamentary speakers of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan signed a strategic partnership document—the “Baku Declaration”—in Baku, Azerbaijan, which creates a new format for political cooperation between the three states.
On Saturday (!), August 14, 2021, President of Poland Andrzej Duda signed the “restitution law”. Whether it was a deliberate act or a coincidence, but it was on a day sacred for the Jewish people that the surviving prisoners of Nazi death camps, as well as descendants of the six million Holocaust victims, who live today across a vast territory from Canada to Australia, found out that Poland took away their right to compensation and reclamation of the property confiscated from their families in the Holocaust and after the war.
The ancient Azerbaijani city of Gabala played host once again to its famous music festival this summer, after a year’s hiatus due to the pandemic.
'As for whether there are any Azerbaijani citizens in [Afghanistan]; there are currently none present there,' according to the foreign ministry's spokeswoman.
Armenia's defence ministry said in a statement that an Armenian soldier was shot dead by a sniper from Azerbaijan on Monday, as border tensions between the countries continue.
Anglo Asian Mining PLC said Monday that an initial mineral resource estimate for its Zafar polymetallic deposit in Azerbaijan is encouraging and will help support its future long-term production growth.
Moscow’s recent statements on arming Yerevan is “a worrying issue,” Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev stated Saturday, saying that Baku expects Russia not to arm Armenia.
National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-seug began his nine-day visit to Turkey and Azerbaijan on Friday, hoping to strengthen cooperation on the economy and defense, officials said Sunday.
Azerbaijan is negotiating the purchase of $2 billion worth of advanced Israeli weapons, reports the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom (“Israel Today”), conducting a serious analysis of the upcoming deal.
Azerbaijan hopes that Russia will continue its efforts ensuring security in the region, President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised interview with Turkish channel CNN Turk on Saturday.
Armenia-Azerbaijan relations are again getting dangerously tense, argues Vasif Huseynov in this opinion piece for KarabakhSpace.eu. “It is therefore urgent for the international community to take all possible measures to ensure the implementation of the ceasefire accord of 10 November 2020 and bring the sides to the negotiations table.”
People tried to manipulate each other since ancient times, and various methods were used for these purposes, such as fear of curses, natural forces, higher powers (gods, religion), or deliberate spread of rumors/false information, in order to mislead the opponents or strike terror into their hearts, etc.
Geopolitical self-interest has no place when it comes to true peace-making. Armenia and Azerbaijan are learning that the hard way.
The Russian military has blamed Azerbaijan for breaching its volatile truce with Armenia for the first time since deploying its peacekeeping mission, South Caucasus media reported Friday.
Azerbaijan expects Ukrainian Education and Science Minister Serhiy Shkarlet to visit the country in October to renew the agreement on the mutual recognition of educational documents, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Ukraine Elmira Akhundova has told Ukrinform.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has increased its forecast for Azerbaijan's average daily oil production for 2022.
The Azerbaijani authorities held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 1 for the planned Alat Free Economic Zone (AFEZ), which will be linked to the new Baku International Seaport also under construction near the village of Alat, around 50 miles south of the capital of Baku.
The delegation celebrated expanding the educational and research partnerships between Oklahoma and Azerbaijan.
RZD Logistics and Nurminen Logistics Services have completed the test shipment from Finland to India via Russia and Azerbaijan.
Yerevan is ready to resume the operations of the tri-lateral commission of the deputy prime ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan on unblocking regional communications, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a government meeting on Thursday.
Russia must put an end to the illegal presence of Armenian troops within Azerbaijan's borders, Baku urged Moscow on Wednesday as Russia vowed to help modernize and re-equip Yerevan’s army.
The former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan has unveiled plans to attract more Western tourists by creating the nation’s first official wine route.
Alex Vexler: Tens of thousands of Israelis are waiting for the Azerbaijani embassy to open in Israel
There have been new positive trends in Azerbaijani-Israeli relations after the end of the 44-day war, the most important one being the opening of trade and tourism offices of Azerbaijan in Tel Aviv, which can be described as a new historical milestone in the bilateral cooperation.
- 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
