Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Transport has outlined ambitious goals for the corridor, aiming to increase cargo traffic to 600 container trains per year in both 2025 and 2026.
Interestingly, OCCRP’s main sponsors include the Soros Foundation, USAID, and the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy.
These days, as part of the 114th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Armenia's periodic report is being reviewed.
"I am incredibly proud of the work the US Embassy team and I have done in Azerbaijan during my tenure in Baku."
It is hard to believe that any new large-scale aid packages for Ukraine would fit into Donald Trump's plans. He will likely want to avoid further involvement in a losing war and will probably pressure Zelensky and Europe to offer a deal to Russia.
After COP28 in Dubai last year, Azerbaijan hosted the 29th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 29) from November 11 to 22 in Baku. The COP29 has raised a discussion of whether resource-rich countries should host the UN Climate Summit or not.
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has announced the start of natural gas supplies to Slovakia.
When Egypt and Israel moved towards peace in 1979 there were tangible benefits for both sides, particularly the former. Egypt has received substantial aid from the US, amounting to $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid and $250 million in economic assistance each year. Since 1979, Egypt has received $69 billion compared to $98 billion for Israel, becoming the two largest recipients of U.S. foreign aid.
On December 10, World Human Rights Day, Azerbaijan will unveil a comprehensive report detailing war crimes allegedly committed by Armenia during its occupation of Karabakh.
The Caspian Sea, located near the site of the UN COP29 climate summit in Baku, has been experiencing an unprecedented drop in water levels for nearly three decades.
Georgia continues to be shaken by protests. The country's intelligence services have announced the prevention of a coup aimed at seizing power.
The recent BRICS summit held on 22-24 October in the Russian city of Kazan, featured the first talks in the last few months between the Azerbaijani and Armenian leadership.
In diplomacy, details often determine the outcome — and the scandal surrounding Polish President Andrzej Duda's visit to Armenia serves as a vivid example of this principle.
As we speak, millions of people who live in the Global South are experiencing the harsh reality of climate change, even though it was the Global North who disproportionately caused the problem.
COP29 in Baku sparked widespread debate. Critics labeled it a failure, lamenting unmet climate finance goals, while others noted its role in deferring critical fossil fuel extraction issues to COP30. Azerbaijan's president described oil and gas as "gifts from God," triggering media backlash. Meanwhile, global elites recalibrate agendas, navigating challenges to "inclusive capitalism" and shifting narratives toward reindustrialization.
One of the key achievements was the announcement of a new financial commitment: $300 billion to address the climate crisis and an ambitious goal to mobilize $1.3 trillion by 2035.
The fact that Polish President Andrzej Duda participated in the binocular show at the Armenia-Azerbaijan border is unflattering in itself, and the reaction of the Azerbaijani side is entirely understandable, logical, and expected.
Over the past two years, numerous unofficial deadlines have been set for signing the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty.
Michał Greczyło, the chargé d'affaires of Poland in Azerbaijan, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.
Western projects targeting the Global South are often fraught with war or turmoil. The evidence is abundant, and to see the duplicity of those behind such explosive plans, one only needs to observe how so-called peacekeeping emissaries hinder opposing sides from reaching consensus.
Polish President Andrzej Duda visited the border region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, accompanied by members of the EU Mission in Armenia (EUMA).
“Azerbaijan has proven to be a reliable partner of NATO ,” declared President Ilham Aliyev in December 2021 during his visit to NATO Headquarters in Brussels. NATO
Türkiye seems to be pulling through with plans to build a railway to Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave, which is separated from its mainland by Armenia.
“As the host country of COP29, we have become the target of a coordinated, well-orchestrated campaign of slander and blackmail”, said President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan during his inauguration speech at the climate conference on 12 November.
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