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On August 25, 2025, UK Minister for Europe Stephen Doughty paid an official visit to Baku, marking the first such engagement by a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Minister for Europe since 2023.

The Azerbaijani track was overseen by GRU officer Valery Chernyshov. Moscow received “background reports” on well-known officials, military officers, and public figures from the republic.

Aide to the President of Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration, Hikmet Hajiyev, held meetings with Chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Brian Mast and Senator Steve Daines.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has hailed the Zangezur Corridor as a key transport route that will link continents and enhance regional cooperation. 

Early in the morning, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation released a statement about the detention of an Azerbaijani citizen who, it claims, was preparing a terrorist attack in the Stavropol region on the instructions of a terrorist organization operating in Ukraine.

Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada has rejected statements made by Russia’s Foreign Ministry concerning insurance payments following the downing of an “Azerbaijan Airlines” (AZAL) aircraft and on the state of Azerbaijan–Russia relations.

On August 30, Azerbaijani Presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev, head of the Foreign Policy Department, held a phone conversation with Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan, reportedly initiated by the Azerbaijani side.

The frosty handshake between Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev at the Beijing parade comes after months of strained relations between the two countries.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin spoke about relations with Azerbaijan.

More than 20 country leaders and 10 heads of international organizations participated in the SCO Plus meeting. President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan previously attended SCO Summit meetings in Samarkand in 2022 and Astana in 2024.

The OSCE Ministerial Council today adopted a decision to terminate the activities of the OSCE Minsk Process and its related structures, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan said in a statement.

In the Chinese city of Tianjin, a meeting took place between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif.

Erdogan’s meetings with both Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders on the sidelines of the SCO summit highlight Ankara’s active regional diplomacy.

The OSCE Minsk Group has been disbanded. The decision was taken by the OSCE Permanent Council at its meeting in Vienna on Monday, 1 September.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev held a meeting on the sidelines of the SCO with Xie Yi, founder and chairman of Sichuan Sunsync Photovoltaic Technology Co.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday said China supports Azerbaijan in joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

A meeting between the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, took place in the Chinese city of Tianjin.

The US Department of State has published the finalized documents from President Trump"s historic August 8 meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

About two months ago the Armenian consul in Austria, Ashkhen Aleksanyan, was detained at Zvartnots Airport while departing for Vienna. Authorities confiscated documents that raised suspicions of espionage in favor of Azerbaijan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the Security Council, where he touched upon relations with CIS countries.

On August 28, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the European Union’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Magdalena Grono.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the trilateral agreement signed with Moscow in 2020 is no longer in effect.