Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today said Baku will not sign any peace deal with Yerevan that includes any mention of the “Armenian minority in Nagorno Karabakh.
French President Emmanuel Macron, in a telephone conversation yesterday with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, expressed his readiness to support the normalization of relations between Yerevan and Baku.
The presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkey met on the sidelines of the 9th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States in Samarkand yesterday and discussed the current situation in the South Caucasus and the results of the tripartite talks between the l
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told reporters today in Istanbul that his government is ready to normalize relations with Armenia if Yerevan maintains “positive relations” with Azerbaijan.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters today that Moscow will continue to assist Armenia and Azerbaijan in reaching a peace deal.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, in a speech delivered today in Shushi to mark Victory Day, admitted that Azerbaijan started the 2020 Artsakh war because it feared no one.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan (Ararat Mirzoyan, Jeyhun Bayramov) shook hands yesterday in Washington D.C. before sitting down with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an attempt to resolve lingering differences to draft a pea
TASS reports that Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov today urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to refrain from steps escalating tension on the line of contact.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan leaves for Tehran tomorrow at the invitation of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during today’s meeting in Sochi with Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to settle the Karabakh issue once and for all.
According to Aliyev’s website, the two also discussed the "North-South" international transportation corridor and noted the dynamic development of Russian-Azerbaijani relations and the current state of cooperation between the two countries in variou
Earlier this week, Zatulin published a letter, allegedly from a senior Armenian parliament staffer, notifying him that his further visits to Armenia are deemed “undesirable”.
Azerbaijan plans to spend 5.3 billion manats (US$3.1 billion at the current exchange rate) on defense and national security in 2023, 17.1% more than in 2022.
The Turkish daily Sabah, citing unnamed diplomatic sources, reports that the special representatives of Armenia and Turkey will next meet in Turkey.
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price, during a press briefing yesterday, said Washington wants to see a stable Caucasus region.
Zakharova, according to TASS, issued a statement on Monday charging Washington and Brussels of circulating “"unsubstantiated accusations that Moscow isn’t fulfilling its security obligations to Armenia."
The Kremlin remains tightlipped about a reported meeting between the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow.
Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has personally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to continue the Soviet Union’s policy of disrespecting the countries of Central Asia.
The mission was announced earlier this month following talks in Prague between Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel.
We consider E. Macron's statements that Russia is allegedly using the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to destabilize the South Caucasus as scandalous and unacceptable.
So, we will continue to remain engaged on this issue. I can’t promise a particular outcome, but I can promise that it will remain a priority for us.”
Ali Akbar Velayati, Adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader on International Issues, told RIA Novosti that Iran is ready to mediate relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, during a Turkish TV interview yesterday, said Azerbaijan and Armenia have reached an agreement on the basic points of the peace treaty.
The next tripartite meeting of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and European Council President Charles Michel will take place in November in Brussels.
Photos have already appeared on the internet, showing an informal meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said he is cautiously optimistic about reaching a peace deal with Armenia, but warned that Yerevan would “make another serious mistake” if it does not seek compromise.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price today said that Washington D.C. is deeply concerned about the execution of unarmed Armenian captives by Azerbaijani servicemen.
The U.S. Treasury Department has designated Taco LLC (Taco), a company registered in Armenia, as a third-country supplier for Radioavtomatika, a major Russian defense procurement firm that specializes in procuring foreign items for Russia’s defense i
Russian Deputy PM Alexei Overchuk, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta today, said the process of unblocking transportation links in the South Caucasus is continuing despite tensions along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
"I sincerely wish you good health and success in state activities, and happiness and well-being to all the citizens of fraternal Armenia.”
"We believe in the necessity of using political approaches and solutions to end conflicts and reduce tension and political dialogues to resolve the differences between the two countries," ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani told reporters at his weekly
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has welcomed U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Armenia, adding that “deeds, not words” are needed to facilitate a settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to adhere to the ceasefire that halted hostilities along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
Hinting at possible defense assistance to Armenia, Pelosi said the U.S. is ready to help Armenia if Pashinyan’s government seeks it.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) will accompany Pelosi to Armenia where she is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other government officials.
A proposed CSTO fact-finding delegation has yet to arrive along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border where fighting broke out yesterday.
At today’s CSTO special video summit in Minsk, State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich proposed that the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas should visit the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and draft a detailed report of t
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke overnight with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to express deep concern over military action along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, including shelling in Armenia.
MEP Marina Kaljurand, Estonia’s former foreign minister who now serves as the European Parliament’s Delegation Cahir for Relations with the South Caucasus, has condemned last night’s military attack by Azerbaijan against targets in Armenia.
NATO has called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to cease military actions along their border.
The fighting along the Armenian-Azerbaijan border & the reported intense shelling needs to stop immediately. The EU is in close contact with the sides to contribute to de-escalation.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kan'ani has expressed his country’s concern about the recent escalation of tension along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and called on both sides to resolve disputes in a peaceful manner.
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price, in a Twitter post, welcomed yesterday’s release and repatriation of five Armenian war captives held in Azerbaijan.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov today said he could not confirm whether Vladimir Putin will travel to Armenia to attend a CSTO summit in November.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, according to the Azerbaijani APA news agency, has announced that Armenia has accepted Baku's five point peace proposal.
Azerbaijani Presidential Aide on Foreign Affairs Hikmet Hajiyev is angry that the ambassadors of the U.S. and France have refused to visit the town of Shushi today where a conference of accredited foreign diplomats in Azerbaijan was held.
Azerbaijani military units have entered the town of Berdzor (Lachin) and have taken control of the Armenian villages of Aghavno (Zabukh) and Sus, this according to a Twitter post by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has appointed Ambassador Philip T. Reeker to serve as U.S. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair and Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations.
He said that Yerevan has yet to respond to Baku’s proposals to normalize relations.