ISTANBUL (AA) – Baku early Tuesday said it carried out a “revenge operation” in response to a cross-border fire by Armenia a day earlier, which injured one Azerbaijani serviceman. “As a result of the operation, the combat post of the Armenian Armed Forces near the Nerkin-And settlement of Gafan district, where our soldi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has summoned the EU’s ambassador to Baku over the activities of the bloc’s mission in Armenia. “During the meeting, the serious concern was reiterated with regard to the activities of the EU Monitoring Mission in Armenia (EUMA) that contradict the initial agreements with respect to this mission and activities,”...
MOSCOW (AA) – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev easily cruised to victory in this week’s early presidential election, winning 92.1% of the vote with all the ballots counted, the country’s Central Election Commission officially announced on Friday. The Wednesday vote was historic, as it marked the first time it was held on the enti...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan has urged the international community to exert pressure on Armenia to provide accurate mine maps. “Armenia violated international law and committed a war crime by planting mines on Azerbaijani territories,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada said. Hajizada noted that Armenia provided...
MOSCOW (AA) – Azerbaijan on Tuesday accused the EU’s top diplomat of “instigating militarization and an aggressive policy towards Azerbaijan.” In a statement on the ministry’s website, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada rejected remarks by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell – also known as the high repr...
Paris, France – AFP Azerbaijan has named minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev as president of the COP29 climate conference to be held in November in Baku, an official told AFP on Friday. The nomination makes 2024 the second year in a row that global climate talks are to be led by a man […]
MOSCOW (AA) – The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned deliveries of Bastion offensive armored vehicles by France to Armenia. Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada said in a statement that the transfer of the military equipment to Yerevan will serve the “destructive actions of Armenia.” “These steps by Fra...
Baku, Azerbaijan- AFP Azerbaijan has detained an ex-president of its recently captured separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which agreed to reintegrate with Azerbaijan in the wake of Baku’s lightning offensive last month. Earlier on Wednesday, Armenia’s foreign ministry “strongly condemned” Azerbaijan for arresting se...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia will decide on the terms of the presence of its peacekeepers in Karabakh together with Baku, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. “The timing and other issues of the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the region will be determined jointly with our colleagues … If we are talking about ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Azerbaijan on Monday unveiled a plan for the reintegration of the Armenian population of Karabakh, state media reported. According to a document published by Azerbaijani state news agency AzerTag, Azerbaijan ensures equality of rights and freedoms for all, regardless of ethnicity, religion, or language. The administration o...
