MOSCOW (AA) – Azerbaijan has condemned France’s plans to sign an agreement that would allow the delivery of military equipment to Armenia. “The efforts to supply Armenia with weaponry in every possible way and the instigation of this country for another aggression and military adventure by France are unacceptable,” an Azerbaijani Foreign...
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...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Friday that 25 police officers were injured in riots caused by Lebanese of Armenian origin who tried to attack the Azerbaijani Embassy in Beirut. ISF said it respects freedom of expression but conditioned that it does not affect the freedom of others or damage public [&hellip...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has said that 192 of its troops were killed and 511 were injured during counter-terrorism measures in Karabakh last week. The ministry said in a statement posted on its website that there were also two civilian casualties, with one person killed and another injured. Separately, the Azerbaijani Def...
MOSCOW (AA) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that the US has to get prior approval from Azerbaijan to send a mission to the Karabakh region. Commenting on the US proposal to establish a human rights monitoring mission in Karabakh, Peskov said at a news conference in Moscow that “any mission (on Karabakh’s […...
Lachin Corridor, Azerbaijan – AFP Thousands more Armenians left Nagorno-Karabakh as officials in Azerbaijan’s war-scarred separatist statelet raised the death toll from a fuel blast to 20. The number of deaths from Monday’s fuel depot blast threatened to grow much higher because dozens were being treated in critical condition...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran has suspended flights to neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia, according to local media reports. Under a decision by Iran’s Civil Aviation Authority, the flights have been suspended “for a short time,” Mohammad Mohammadi Bakhsh, head of the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, told the Iranian Labour News Agency (...
Moscow, Russia – – AFP Russia has urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to “end bloodshed” and pursue peace talks, after Baku launched “anti-terror operations” in the disputed Armenian-majority region of Nagorno-Karabakh. “The Russian side urges an end to the bloodshed… and a return to a peaceful settleme...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has set up humanitarian corridors along the Lachin road to facilitate the evacuation of Armenian civilians in the Karabakh region, where it has launched “anti-terrorist activities,” the country’s Defense Ministry has said. The ministry in a statement advised the civilian population to maintain...
