In the city of Dmani, a quarrel has turned into a brawl and struggle between the Christian and Muslim communities. The city is on the road between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The intervention of the Mufti of Eastern Georgia and the representative of the Patriarchate of Georgia was decisive. Inter-ethnic struggles, a legacy of the Soviet past.
Russia said on Wednesday it had offered to help mediate demarcation negotiations after Armenia accused Azerbaijan of a border incursion.
Since it regained its independence in 1991, Azerbaijan has come to play a meaningful role in shaping Europe’s energy market.
The issue of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, especially in the vicinity of Azerbaijan’s de-occupied/liberated territories, is not a new one, but it has arisen again, with particular force, for three reasons. First, as noted above, Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are now located directly opposite one another.
Russia's entanglement in Armenia-Azerbaijan relations appears to be getting deeper. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking in Dushambe on Wednesday (19 May) said that Russia was ready to participate as mediator and consultant in a commission it proposes to establish between Armenia and Azerbaijan on border demarcation between the two countries.
Reacting to May 16-17 events in Georgia’s ethnically mixed southern town of Dmanisi, Azerbaijan’s State Committee on Work with Diaspora said yesterday they do not rule out the possibility of the disturbance being a “deliberately organized provocation.”
Naghi Hosseinov made the remarks in his meeting with East Azarbaijan province Deputy Governor for Economic Affairs Ali Jahangiri on Tuesday.
To mark World Environment Day, the European Union, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan have together launched a drawing contest on the topic ‘#GenerationRestoration’. This competition is organised as part of the EU4Climate project.
The United States should recognize the potential contribution to enhancing regional security of Azerbaijan and Georgia, which would grant them access to greater security cooperation and military assistance.
Soviet-era maps don’t provide a clear answer to just where the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan lies in the Syunik district which Baku refers to as Zengezur. Instead, a Soviet military map assigns territory to Azerbaijan that a Soviet topographic map says belongs to Armenia.
EUvsDisinfo talked with three Azerbaijani journalists reflecting on their role in society. They represent different generations of Azerbaijani journalism: Shahin Hajiyev working in the press since 1986, inspired by the “perestroika” in then USSR; now he is editor-in-chief at Turan News Agency. Ilhamiyya Rza working since 1989 in print and electronic media, winner of the Hasan bey Zardabi-national award and now with Khazar TV, just as Seymur Kazimov freelance journalist since 2002 specialising in conflict reporting.
On Monday 17 May 2021, the NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Mircea Geoană, will meet with the Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan-Head of the Department of Foreign Policy Affairs of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan Hikmat Hajiyev at NATO Headquarters.
According to available information, SOCAR has announced that it will supply diesel fuel at a price of more than US$ 30 per ton.
The South Caucasus region has the opportunity to become one of Eurasia’s most important transport corridors.
Earlier, the Turkish leader stated that Ankara supports the Palestinians in the same spirit it had earlier supported Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan is hardly the first country that comes to mind when it comes to cinema, although it does have a cinematic tradition dating back to 1898, when French-Russian cinematographer Alexandre Michon shot a 30 second-long short titled The Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat.
Khatibzadeh stressed the importance of preserving stability and peace in the region and invited both sides to exercise self-restraint, to refrain from any conflict and to respect borders.
The Foreign Ministry noted that Acting Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazyan informed CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas continued to discuss steps taken in order to resolve the situation on the Armenian border.
Armenia's prime minister said Friday he has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military assistance amid simmering tensions with Azerbaijan in the wake of an armed conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The first-ever validation process for certifying competences acquired through non-formal and informal learning has been introduced in Azerbaijan.
The implementation of the trilateral agreement brokered by Russia on the night of November 9-10, 2020, between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues in fits and starts. Most near-term questions have been resolved. How intermediate-term issues turn out depend upon the results of the snap parliamentary elections called in June by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. As for the longer-term outcome, this is more difficult to estimate, and it is path-dependent upon those elections. In this regard, events on the ground—but not only the elections—are still in control, even if these are no longer military events.
For 26 years, the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) worked fruitlessly to bring the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict to a peaceful resolution. Then, in just six weeks, the Second Karabakh War radically altered the conflict and the Minsk Group was shunted aside.
The officials exchanged views on how to boost travel when the coronavirus is controlled with help of vaccines.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that his country's delegation, visiting Baku, aspires to outline concrete steps to solve problems over Nagorno-Karabakh during the stay in Azerbaijan.
