Tag Archives: Armenia

Azerbaijan’s military positions have again come under Armenia’s fire in western Tovuz region on the border with Armenia, the Defence Ministry reported on November 18. From 1410 on November 18, the Armenian armed forces’ units once again shelled intensively the Azerbaijani army positions in Tovuz region’s Kokhanebi village “for no apparent …

Prosecutor-General Kamran Aliyev has said that the work is underway to open unknown graves to identify Azerbaijani citizens who went missing during the first Karabakh war in the early 1990s. He stressed that nearly 4,000 Azerbaijanis went missing during the first Karabakh war. “After the liberation of the territories from Armenian occupation [in the …

Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Mukhtar Babayev has said that the international community must put pressure on Armenia to urge the latter to stop polluting Azerbaijani rivers, Trend reported on June 30. He made the remarks at the presentation of the Karabakh.Center web resource in Baku on June 30. “Unfortunately, Armenia …

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 …

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 …

Chief of Armenian Army’s General Staff Onik Gasparyan has admitted that his country launched the Iskander  tactical ballistic missile during the 44-day war with Azerbaijan in 2020, Day.az reported on February 24. The report added the head of one of the largest Russian media holdings, Aram Gabrelyanov, published a stunning entry on his Telegram channel, which …

A spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva commented on a member of the Russian State Duma Vitaly Milonov’s interview given to the Armenian TV channel, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry. “The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry firmly condemns the unacceptable expressions against Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani people, which …

The Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian prosecutor-generals have held a trilateral meeting in Moscow at Russia’s initiative, the Azerbaijani Prosecutor-General’s Office reported on its website on January 12. The Azerbaijani delegation led by Prosecutor-General Kamran Aliyev visited Moscow at his Russian counterpart Igor Krasnov’s invitation. The meeting among the three prosecutor-generals …

Iran announced its readiness to fire at the Armenian Armed Forces if they again approach the country’s border with Azerbaijan, control over which was returned by Azerbaijan a few days ago, authoritative sources of Vestnik Kavkaza News Agency in the Islamic Republic told Trend. “Having restored control over the border areas …

“On July 14, 2020, Azizov Aziz Izzet, born in 1944, a resident of Aghdam village of Tovuz region, was killed as a result of artillery fire opened by the Armenian armed forces in the direction of Tovuz region of Azerbaijan. The purposeful targeting of the Azerbaijani civilian population and shooting …