With little progress in post-war negotiations over an array of areas, a new report by the International Crisis Group warned Armenia and Azerbaijan could resume hostilities. On May 14, Armenia’s parliament issued a statement on a ‘crisis situation in its border districts’ relating to its non-demarcated and undelimited border with Azerbaijan.
Many had been angry at Pashinyan after last year’s Nagorno-Karabakh war, but having won the snap poll, he may now usher in a period of easier relations with neighbours.
According to the combat training plan approved by the Minister of Defense, the Naval Forces started tactical exercises on June 22.
The cooperation between the diaspora institutions of Turkey and Azerbaijan will be further enhanced and strengthened with the recently inked Shusha agreement, the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) stated on Tuesday.
Azerbaijan released 15 Armenian prisoners of war on Saturday in exchange for the locations of 97,000 Armenian land mines on territory Azerbaijan recaptured in last fall’s Nagorno-Karabakh war. That was a welcome sign that American diplomacy in the Caucasus is alive and well.
“Who lost Turkey?” has been a running question among Turkey watchers for years, a reference to fears that the supposedly secular Muslim-majority state would cut ties with the liberal-minded West and turn to the purportedly more closed-off, and Islamist, East.
Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaisar on Monday welcomed the initiative of Azerbaijan for establishing Azerbaijan-Pakistan-Turkey Trilateral Parliamentary Cooperation Platform and termed it a new era of close and cordial parliamentary linkages between the brotherly countries.
«Azerbaijan is Kazakhstan’s key political and trade-economic partner in South Caucasus and Caspian region,» Deputy Prime-Minister-Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi told at the meeting with his counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov as part of his official visit to Baku.
On June 21, Chairman of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora Fuad Muradov met with Chairwoman of the "Vatansever" Azerbaijan-Kuwait Culture and Friendship Society Konul Hajizade.
The situation at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border escalated again shortly after the Nagorno-Karabakh hostilities last year.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday held talks with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Col. Gen. Zakir Hasanov, Minister of Defence
Russia largely stood aside as Turkey and Azerbaijan observed if Armenia would turn a page after decades of regional isolation.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed speculation that Turkey could build a military base in Azerbaijan as “rumors.” However, the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Caucasus must have been a deep concern to Russia.
Azerbaijani troops are going to Turkey to participate in commando courses as part of a broader Turkey-Azerbaijan agreement on military cooperation, AzerNews reported on Monday.
Iran welcomes Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's proposal for a six-party regional cooperation platform, Iran's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Seyyed Abbas Mousavi told Trend.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev received Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister on Monday, a presidency statement said.
Results released Monday showed that the party of Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan won a snap parliamentary election that he called to ease anger over a peace deal he signed with Azerbaijan.
Azimuth Airlines started operating flights to the capital of Azerbaijan. On the June 19, the first direct flight A4659/660 Mineralnye Vody — Baku — Mineralnye Vody.
Among the new cooperation projects in the field of the defense industry between Turkey and Azerbaijan are unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UAVs), which have proven their capabilities after being used in several recent regional conflicts such as the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
The next meeting of the Coordination Council of Scandinavian Azerbaijanis was dedicated to the activities of diaspora organizations after the restoration of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.
A series of actions organized by Erjan Yerdalanli, a member of the board of the Coordination Council of American Azerbaijanis and head of the Azerbaijan New York Association were held in New York in memory of Azerbaijani journalists killed in a mine explosion.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed victory in snap parliamentary elections he called in an effort to defuse a political crisis after a defeat in war against Azerbaijan in November.
On June 21, 2021, during the meeting of Mr. Asset Assavbayev, Secretary General of the PS IGC TRACECA and Mr. Rufat Bayramov, National Secretary of the IGC TRACECA in Azerbaijan with Mr. Rashad Nabiyev, Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies, an exchange of views on key issues of TRACECA corridor development, implementation of priority plans, provided for in the Strategy until 2026 and the Action Plan for 2018-2021 was held.
Air Arabia has announced the resumption of direct flights between Sharjah and Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, starting July 11, said a report.
