Nov 15, 2023. Posted
by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Before the next round of international negotiations in Geneva, during the
meeting with the co-chairs of the discussions, the Russian side, as one of the
participants, spoke about “the process of delimitation of Georgia’s border with
Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the importance of further demarcation”.
Armenia
Italian delegation pays
official visit
On November 9, Suren Papikyan, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, received the delegation led by Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of
With the
end of the Nagorno-Karabakh entity and possibly a bloody series
of wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russia’s foreign policy toward the
South Caucasus is undergoing fundamental shifts.
Oct 22,
2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
The 2nd meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia,
Türkiye and Iran within the ‘3+3’ format (Russia, Iran and Türkiye, and 3 South
Caucasus countries - Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia) will be held in Tehran
on October 23, iranian media reports.
Mikheil
Saakashvili, the former Georgian President, addressed Armenian Prime
Minister Nikol Pashinyan with a post on social network X (former Twitter).
Oct 14, 2023. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
Azerbaijan and Turkey have broken ground on the construction of the
long-planned gas pipeline linking Turkey’s gas grid to the Azerbaijani exclave
of Nakhchivan (Nakhichevan).
French
Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on a visit to Armenia on
Tuesday that Paris agreed to deliver military equipment to the small South
Caucasus nation.
Vehicles carrying refugees from Nagorno-
Karabakh queue on the road leading towards the Armenian border, September 25, 2023.
Okt 02, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
The mass evacuation of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population has been practically completed, outgoing authorities in Stepanakert indicated late on Sunday after at least 100,000 local residents fled to Armenia, refusing to live under Azerbaijani rule.
The
breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh has proclaimed its own demise after
being recaptured by Azerbaijan in an offensive that has prompted more than half
the population to flee.
The authorities of the Republic of Artsakh have agreed to a
Russian-brokered ceasefire, which went into effect at 1 p.m. local time on
Wednesday. The agreement includes the complete disarming of the Artsakh Defense
Army and the protection of Armenians will fall under the jurisdiction of
Russian peacekeepers stationed in Artsakh, says “asbarez”.
According to the information collected by the Office of the Artsakh Human Rights Defender, as of 21:30, at least 200 people have died, more than 400 wounded as a result of Azerbaijan’s large-scale aggression.
Sixty per cent of Armenians trust the European Union, more than any other
international institution and 17 points up on two years ago, while almost
three-quarters of those asked (74%) think relations between the EU and Armenia
are good, according to the 2023 annual opinion survey in Armenia, EU
Neighbors East reports.