For Israel, Azerbaijan is a strategically important outpost on the northern flank of archenemy Iran. Politically and economically, Jerusalem and Baku have very close ties. Israel is the second largest purchaser of oil from Azerbaijan, and in return Baku has access to Israeli technology and drones.
The Secretary General of the Permanent Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA, Asset Assavbayev, on Thursday (6 May) met in Baku with the foreign minister of Azerbaijan, Jeyhun Bayramov.
"The number of internet users in Azerbaijan is more than 80 percent. Can you imagine the restriction of media in a country where the internet is free, there is no censorship, and there are 80% of internet users?" President Ilham Aliyev tells the BBC journalist.
This HELP online course covers, in an interactive way, the key concepts, the international and European legal framework and the European case law governing the prevention and protection of women and girls from violence, focusing, in particular, on the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention.
Pakistani Ambassador to Azerbaijan Bilal Hayee has said the two countries have friendly relations based on mutual respect and trust, and they are striving to strengthen them through various initiatives.
Azerbaijan's acting health minister Teymur Musayev said the CoronaVac vaccine made by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech is fully safe.
When Ilhama Safarova immigrated to the U.S. from her homeland of Azerbaijan in 2018, the former nurse didn’t plan to open a bakery. The move was so her daughter, Shukrana, could attend college in the District.
With Canadian troops deployed in the Baltics and our continued engagement in Ukraine, it is natural that our attention is drawn to that region. The ongoing political drama in Armenia, however, is a valuable parallel that could foreshadow Russia’s endgame for the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The acting PM vowed that Baku will continue to take measures to implement the agreements, achieved in the November 9, 2020, and January 11, 2021 trilateral statements.
The commotion rages on around the desecration and burning of the monument to the Indian national liberation movement leader, the great thinker and humanist Mahatma Gandhi in the Armenian capital. The act of vandalism was committed soon after the statue had been installed at the full expense of the Indian side.
Any issues, which might run counter to the agreements of the three leaders cannot be perceived as an alternative to what had been agreed on, the Russian top diplomat said.
Russia’s top diplomat highlighted the important contribution to normalizing the situation in the region, which has been made by the trilateral working group led by the deputy prime ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan.
Before the Second Karabakh War and during the post-war period, Armenians promoted discrimination, xenophobia, and enmity among the population, as well as against other nations and races in the media.
Azerbaijani officials said that they will use minesweepers in the territories Azerbaijani army recently liberated from the occupation of Armenian forces.
For the first time in a long while, some positive news has emerged regarding Turkey-Israel relations. It seems that years after the Davos and Mavi Marmara incidents, both countries are seeking ways to improve relations with each other.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili, who is on a visit to the country.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan has aligned with other pro-Western former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine, with one major difference: while Georgia and Ukraine have sought NATO membership, Azerbaijan has adopted a multi-vector foreign policy of integration with NATO without seeking to become a member.
In spite of the warm political ties between the two states Ankara appears in no great hurry to renew the contract, believing it holds the upper hand.
Each cultural and natural domain in these districts of Azerbaijan represents unique pictorial languages, cultural peculiarities and architectural masterpieces.
A few days ago, the Azerbaijani authorities spread the news about the start of the major restoration work in the ancient city of Shusha. Cultural, architectural and historical monuments in the culture capital of Azerbaijan are being resurrected, recovering from the damage inflicted on them in the Second Karabakh War and the literal destruction during the devastating first war and the years under the occupation.
It would be a shorter connection to Russia than the route Azerbaijan has championed since the ceasefire ending last year’s war.
Commentary of the Press Service Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia on the restoration work carried out by Azerbaijan in Shusha.
On 3 May, most countries in the world, including Azerbaijan, celebrate World Press Freedom Day. This year, the slogan of the event is “Information as a public good”.
In this recent panel on landmines in Karabakh, U.S. defense expert Benjamin Minick noted that the landmines issue was an express violation of human rights. He also said that the manner in which they were planted was intentional. “They wanted to inflict maximum damage.”
