The Azerbaijani government publicized on Monday a plan to “reintegrate” Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian residents one day after the end of their mass exodus to Armenia that left Karabakh almost completely depopulated.
Iran has joined Russia in criticizing a joint U.S.-Armenian military exercise that began in Armenia on Monday.
Russia continued to criticize on Thursday Armenia’s decision to host a joint U.S.-Armenian military exercise later this month.
Armenia has categorically denied any involvement in a surveillance scandal in Greece that has led to the resignation of the country’s intelligence chief as well as top prime minister’s aide.
Russia said on Wednesday that the U.S., Russian and French mediators co-heading the OSCE Minsk Group should be able to resume their visits to Nagorno-Karabakh as part of their peace efforts.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sent his foreign minister to Tehran on Monday one day after publicly ruling out Armenia’s involvement in any anti-Iranian “plots” amid stern warnings issued by Iran to Azerbaijan.
Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian military officials announced no agreements after holding more talks over the weekend in a bid to end a military standoff at disputed sections of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
Hundreds more ethnic Armenian refugees have returned to Nagorno-Karabakh nearly one week after a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement stopped the Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
France has accused Turkey of pursuing aggressive policies near European borders, including in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A senior Iranian diplomat tasked by his government with unveiling a peace plan for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to the warring side has described the efforts of the current international group seeking a negotiated settlement as inefficient.
Iran announced late on Tuesday that it has drawn up a plan to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the hope of stopping fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continuing along its northwestern border.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit out at the United States, Russia and France on Sunday, alleging that the three countries co-heading the OSCE Minsk Group are supplying weapons to Armenia.
More international reports have emerged of Turkey-backed rebel fighters recruited in Syria and sent to fight in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone on Azerbaijan’s side.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has expressed his dissatisfaction with what he says was the fresh delivery of Russian military supplies to Armenia in the weeks that followed the latest deadly fighting along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in July.
Serbia Admits Arms Deals With Armenia
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will reportedly meet on Friday for further talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Azerbaijan has essentially completed large-scale acquisitions of weapons for its armed force which began more than a decade ago, President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Monday afternoon as part of his regional tour that included talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Police in Israel have launched a criminal investigation against a leading kamikaze-drone manufacturing company that had a deal with Azerbaijan on the supply ofdeadly unmanned aerial vehicles allegedly live tested on Armenian forces.
After almost one year of negotiations, the Georgian government and Russia’s Gazprom monopoly have reached a new agreement on the transit through Georgia of Russian natural gas delivered to Armenia, it was announced on Wednesday.
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