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The two neighboring countries that have fought bloody wars over Karbakh.
Four Armenian troops were reportedly killed overnight when the Azerbaijani military targeted a border outpost. Baku has claimed to be retaliating following a provocation by its neighbor.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has secured a fifth consecutive term in elections on Wednesday, official results showed, an expected outcome after his country's historic victory over Armenian separatists last year.
Two employees at the French embassy in Baku were declared personae non gratae for engaging in activities contrary to their diplomatic status, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry confirmed, adding that the two diplomats were asked to leave the country within 48 hours.
Baku and Yerevan are closer to a peace agreement than ever, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said at the press conference in Azerbaijan, where he is on an official visit.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has discussed with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan the possibility of concluding a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev accused France on Tuesday of creating conditions for a new war in the South Caucasus by supplying weapons to Armenia.
Armenia should work with Turkey and Azerbaijan to build peace instead of looking to the West for weapons and training, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, in thinly veiled criticism of the US and France.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said war has come to an end in the South Caucasus and the time is now ripe for promotion of peace and progress in the region.
The foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia will meet in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday for the second meeting of “3+3” to discuss the issues of the South Caucasus region in order to help tackle the regional issues, according to Iranian news agency IRNA.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the situation in and around the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in telephone conversations, the Kremlin press service has announced.
EU lawmakers have accused Azerbaijan of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” against the Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, and urged the bloc to impose sanctions on Baku.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has reiterated Tehran’s opposition to the presence of foreigners in the Caucasus. He also described as “unacceptable” any geopolitical change in the region, which he said would be harmful to the interests of the regional countries.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has called France's efforts to deliver weapons to Armenia unacceptable, saying it “carries security risks in the region.”
The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has expressed Tehran’s readiness to dispatch observers to the frontier between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia and help relieve tensions between the two northwestern neighbors.
The recent arrests made in Nagorno-Karabakh merit the global community’s attention, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a meeting with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna in Yerevan.
The residents of Nagorno-Karabakh who fled the region following a counterterrorism operation by Baku can return to their homes, Elchin Amirbekov, an Azerbaijani presidential envoy for special assignments, has said in an interview with Radio J.
Vehicles of the UN mission assessing the humanitarian situation and the needs of the local population have arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani news agency APA has reported.
An ethnic Armenian exodus has nearly emptied Nagorno-Karabakh of residents since Azerbaijan attacked the breakaway region and ordered the fighter groups to disarm, the Armenian government has announced.
The United Nations is to send a mission to Nagorno-Karabakh this weekend, its first access to the disputed region in about 30 years. It comes amid reports that nearly 80 percent of the ethnic Armenian population of the region have been displaced.
The authorities of Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh announced on Thursday the dissolution of the self-proclaimed republic after a Russian-mediated truce ended a flare-up of hostilities between the enclave and Baku.