The Greek community of Azerbaijan laid a wreath at the funeral of the Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan (Moscow Patriarchate), Alexander (Issen), as a token of honor for a hierarch whom they loved.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway (BTK) – a massive project that kicked off in 2017 connecting Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan plus Europe to Central Asia and China – is set to transport more goods each year thanks to the Kars Logistics Center in eastern Turkey, according to an official.
The European Union welcomes the actions taken by Armenia and Azerbaijan and facilitated by Georgia that led to the release by Azerbaijan of 15 Armenian detainees and the handing over by Armenia of maps of mined areas on Saturday.
The German army is ill-equipped to defend itself against a potential attack by combat drones, which are getting increasingly complex every day, a Germany-based think tank said following an analysis of the international UAV market and the role drones played in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict last year.
Yerevan has provided Baku with a "substantial, but small" portion of maps showing mines planted during the war on the eastern borders of the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Sunday.
According to the agreement reached, on June 12, 2021, in exchange for providing Azerbaijan with maps of 97,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in the Aghdam region, 15 detained Armenians were handed over to Armenia on the Azerbaijani-Georgian border with the participation of Georgian representatives.
Last Friday, on June 4th, a landmine explosion in the Kalbajar region of Azerbaijan killed two Azerbaijani journalists, Maharram Ibrahimov and Siraj Abishev, and local official Arif Aliyev, while four other people were wounded.
It's 170 kilometers (106 miles) from the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to the mountainous region of the Armenian province of Gegharkunik. Since the last clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh, it has become the border area between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
In recognition of the role played by Pakistan Observer in promoting Pakistan-Azerbaijan bilateral relations, the Embassy of Azerbaijan announced certificate of appreciation for the newspaper.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Speaker of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Parliamentary Assembly Bakir Izetbegović have discussed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border tensions and the regional situation.
Saying that with the synchronization of Moghan power transmission lines to the electricity network of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the import of electricity from this country began, he added "Currently, 73 megawatts (MW) of electricity is injected from this transmission line to the internal network of Iran."
Azerbaijan’s president on Saturday received the credentials of Somalia’s new ambassador to Turkey, Jama Abdullahi Mohamed, as a non-resident ambassador to Azerbaijan.
The death of two Azerbaijani journalists and a local government official in a land mine explosion has drawn attention to the ongoing danger of unexploded ordnance in the territories that Azerbaijan retook in the war last year.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry accused the Armenian military of shelling its positions in Azerbaijan’s Kalbajar District, the ministry reported in a statement published on Thursday.
Moscow’s call to reopen the transportation corridors in the South Caucasus that have been blocked for 25 years because of the Armenian-Azerbaijani war over Nagorno-Karabakh has sparked new tensions between those two countries and new concerns by others.
Starting in mid-May, a wave of confrontations between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have taken place in disputed border areas after large-scale fighting between the two states ended in November last year. While both sides trade accusations of violating each others’ international borders, there may be logical reasons for the recent spike in Armenian-Azerbaijani confrontations and their timing.
A protest action was held in front of the Honorary Consulate of Armenia in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at the initiative of public activist Andreia Hiromi.
With the support of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora, organized by the Society of Azerbaijanis in Barcelona, informational billboards dedicated to May 28 - Republic Day were placed on various platforms in the metro in Barcelona, Spain.
The Port of Baku has announced the start of construction of a fertilizer terminal at its new facility in Alat, Azerbaijan. The strategic terminal is jointly financed by the Government of Azerbaijan and the Port of Baku. It is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2022.
On 9 June, the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan, together with Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), announced the winners of the #GenerationRestoration drawing and painting competition for children, organised to mark World Environment Day.
he opportunity to create the Zangezur corridor to connect Turkey and Azerbaijan is one of the most important results of the Nagorno-Karabakh victory, which saw Baku retake several of its Armenian-occupied territories, Azerbaijani Parliament Speaker Sahiba Gafarova stated on Wednesday.
Eslami reiterated that the MoU also included the better implementation of the North-South and East-West corridors.
On 9 June, the European Union, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the State Agency on Vocational Education (SAVE) finished the series of ‘open door’ days with vocational education and training (VET) centres with an event in Sheki.
The 2020 war over Nagorno-Karabakh left many issues unresolved and the front lines volatile. The parties should establish a formal communication channel to address urgent post-war problems, Russian peacekeepers need a clearer mandate and aid agencies must be granted access to the conflict zone.
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