Armenia

Saudi Arabia on Friday welcomed a decision by Armenia’s government to recognize the state of Palestine, the Kingdom’s foreign ministry said in a statement. It stressed that this “decision is an important step that supports the path of…
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Armenia’s prime minister visited Moscow and held talks Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid spiraling tensions between the estranged allies. Putin hosted Nikol Pashinyan for talks following a summit of the Eurasian…
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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Riyadh on Wednesday, Saudi Press Agency reported. During the meeting, the two officials reviewed bilateral relations and ways to…
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Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday his country is “closer than ever” to a peace deal with Armenia, half a year after Azerbaijan recaptured its Karabakh region from its ethnic Armenian majority, prompting a mass exodus of ethnic…
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Azerbaijan will hold snap leadership elections Wednesday with President Ilham Aliyev poised to secure a fifth term on a wave of popularity fueled by his army’s sweeping victory over Armenian separatists. The strongman was heralded after…
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Delegations from the defense ministries of Azerbaijan and Armenia arrived in the Russian city of Tula for a meeting of the council of defense ministers of CIS states, Russian state-run news agencies reported on Friday citing the Russian…
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Saudi Arabia’s minister of foreign affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, held talks with his Danish counterpart, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, on the sidelines of the 78th UN General Assembly, which is taking place in New York. During their…
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Russia summoned the Armenian ambassador on Friday to present a protest about what it deemed “unfriendly steps” as tension in the South Caucasus surged over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Within hours, Armenia’s foreign ministry…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of firing across their shared border on Thursday as international efforts intensify to calm tensions over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. "Azerbaijani forces are firing artillery and…
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Azerbaijan on Sunday set up a checkpoint on the only land link between Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, sparking an angry response from its archrival Yerevan. The move fuels tensions between the ex-Soviet Caucasus nations that…
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