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Azerbaijani Parliament Speaker Sahiba Gafarova has criticized her French counterpart Gerard Larcher’s biased and one-sided statements recently made in Armenia, Azertag reported on April 24. Gafarova reiterated that the French Senate speaker’s statements completely run counter to commitments that France had undertaken as an OSCE Minsk Group co-chairman. “To put …

Azerbaijan and Russia’s North Caucasian Federal District have discussed expansion of regional cooperation in construction and infrastructure. During a videoconference meeting, Head of Russian Export Center representative office in Azerbaijan Nuri Guliyev briefed the participants on the support measures for Russian companies to access Azerbaijani market and called on businessmen …

On 25 April, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis is departing for the South Caucasus. This will be the Foreign Minister’s first official visit to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, where he will meet with top officials and representatives of civil society to discuss possibilities for further development …

Chairperson of the Azerbaijani Parliament Sahiba Gafarova had a telephone conversation with Chairman of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mustafa Sentop at Gafarova’s initiative, Trend reports referring to the Press and PR Department of the Azerbaijani parliament. The speakers of the fraternal countries jointly deplored the statement by US President Joseph …

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has held a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Azertag reported on April 24. During the phone conversation, the presidents condemned US President Joe Biden’s statement on the so-called “Armenian genocide”. Noting that this decision was wrong, President Ilham Aliyev called it a historic …

“It is unfortunate that the statement by US President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day, distorted the historical facts about the events of 1915,” says a commentary by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan on the Statement by President of the United States of America on Armenian Remembrance Day “Those …

Ambassador Elin Suleymanov has said that US President Joe Biden must force Armenia to hand over minefield maps to Azerbaijan, the embassy said on April 24. Suleymanov made the remarks in his article in the US Defense One online magazine. “Despite the fact that several months have passed since the …