Iran and Azerbaijan disagree on whether Friday’s attack on the Azeri embassy in Tehran constituted a ‘terrorist act’.
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Azerbaijan will evacuate embassy staff and family members from Iran on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, two days after a gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an “act of terrorism”.
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev underscored the necessity of enhancing trade exchange and bolstering economic partnerships between both countries' private sectors via the formation of a joint businessmen council.
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said he looks forward to increasing public and private investments from Azerbaijan in Egypt, citing the business reforms introduced by the government to facilitate investment procedures.
Azerbaijan has long bristled at Iran’s support of Armenia in a long-simmering territorial conflict, and Iran is suspicious of Azerbaijan’s alliance with Turkey and of its close ties with Israel and the West.
Iran appointed a new police chief for Tehran on Friday following an armed attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in the capital, though it was unclear if the appointment was influenced by the attack.
We strongly condemn the treacherous Terror Attack against the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi arrived on Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan, for an official visit, to discuss means of developing political and economic relations, according to Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady.
Azerbaijan on Friday said it was evacuating staff from its embassy in Tehran, blaming Iran for a “terrorist” attack in which the head of security was killed and two guards wounded.
The Iranian special services are directly behind the terrorist act against the Azerajan embassy in Iran.
President Ilham Aliyev has shared a publication in connection with the terrorist attack on Azerbaijani Embassy in Iran.
At about 8:30 am on January 27, an armed attack was committed on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran!
Adani met Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in Davos last week, according to a statement from the office of the President of Azerbaijan.
Recently, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Hungary and Romania signed an agreement to build a strategic partnership regarding green energy.
A Council of Europe ceremony was held today at the organization’s headquarters in Strasbourg, marking the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
The increased natural gas production in Azerbaijan can play an important role in the energy security of Hungary and central Europe, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Tuesday, adding that this required regional infrastructure
Azerbaijan takes note of the decision by the Council of the European Union to set up a civilian EU mission in Armenia.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev to urge an immediate reopening of the Lachin corridor to commercial traffic.
It is therefore wrong to dismiss Baku’s arguments as purely a tit-for-tat war. Even while these protests are being questioned, the ecological concerns themselves deserve to be treated with the same seriousness and urgency as those in Armenia.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday hailed the “very important, historical” projects implemented with Azerbaijan, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway and the Black Sea Strategic Submarine Electricity Cable projects, noting the relations between the countries have been “tested by time” and “at the highest level”.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) are contributing to the development of a circular economy in Azerbaijan.
Today, the souls of our heroic martyrs who gave their lives for the independence of Azerbaijan, as well as for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country are at peace.
The European Union is planning to establish a new observer mission with the goal to end the conflict in the border region between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Swiss city of Davos hosts the traditional annual World Economic Forum (WEF). This year, the forum, organized under the motto “Cooperation in a fragmented world”, was attended by a record number of participants discussing key issues of global politics and economy.
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