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by Emil GULIYEV with Mariam HARUTYUNYAN in Yerevan Agence France-Presse LACHIN CORRIDOR, Azerbaijan (AFP) — Ruzan Hovhanisyan fears that she will have to ring in the New Year without her family in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh due to a blockade by arch-enemy Azerbaijan. The mood in the Armenian-populated breakaway territory has been anything but festive. The region of around 120,000 people is running short of food, medicines and fuel, and Armenian authorities have accused […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan held peace talks on Monday, mediated by the United States, just hours after a fresh shootout along their troubled border in a conflict which has left hundreds dead in recent months. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted the foreign ministers of the rival nations. “The United States is committed to the peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Blinken said before the meeting. “Direct dialogue is the […]
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AFP) – The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have held talks in Geneva on a future peace treaty, officials in Baku and Yerevan said Monday, following recent deadly clashes between the arch foes. Last month, at least 286 people were killed from both sides before a US-brokered truce ended the worst clashes since the Caucasus neighbours’ 2020 war. Baku and Yerevan fought two wars — in 2020 and in the 1990s — […]
YEREVAN, Armenia (AFP) – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday condemned what she described as an “illegal” attack by Azerbaijan on Armenia that sparked the worst fighting since their 2020 war. Baku and Yerevan have accused each other of starting Tuesday’s border clashes, which claimed the lives of more than 200 people. “We strongly condemn those attacks — on behalf of Congress — which threaten (the) prospects of the much-needed peace agreement,” Pelosi told […]
by Mariam HARUTYUNYAN with Emil GULIYEV in Baku Agence France-Presse YEREVAN, Armenia (AFP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan reported nearly 100 troop deaths Tuesday in their worst fighting since a 2020 war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The last wave of fighting over Azerbaijan’s tense Armenian-populated enclave ended in a fragile truce brokered by Russia. But on Tuesday, the defense ministry in Baku said “50 Azerbaijani servicemen died as a result of Armenia’s large-scale provocation,” while […]
Yerevan, ARMENIA (AFP) — Police in Armenia on Tuesday detained nearly 300 opposition supporters who tried to block streets in the capital Yerevan, which has been gripped for a month by anti-government protests. Since mid-April, opposition parties have been staging rallies demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation over his handling of a territorial dispute with Azerbaijan. On Tuesday morning, hundreds of opposition supporters attempted to block streets across central Yerevan, an AFP journalist witnessed. […]
by Isgender GANBAROV with Emil GULIYEV in Baku Agence France-Presse BANKA, Azerbaijan (AFP) — The village of Banka in Azerbaijan should have plentiful supplies of water as it lies beside one of the country’s mightiest rivers, the Kura. But the river has shallowed dramatically this summer and has become contaminated with salty seawater, in what experts warn is an unfolding ecological disaster. “Our animals are dying. We don’t get water in time,” said farmer Maryam Hasanova, […]
by Elman Mamedov © Agence France-Presse BAKU, Azerbaijan (AFP) — Azerbaijan strongman Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday secured a fourth consecutive term in a snap election boycotted by the main opposition parties, near-complete results showed. An Aliyev victory was widely seen as a foregone conclusion with the Caspian state’s downtrodden opposition unable to mount a serious challenge to his authoritarian rule. Aliyev’s position has been boosted in recent years by the steady influx of petrodollars into his […]
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AFP) — At least 30 people died as a fire tore through a drug rehabilitation clinic in the Azerbaijani capital Baku early Friday, the local APA news agency reported. Firefighters and rescuers of Azerbaijan’s emergencies ministry had extinguished the blaze and were investigating its causes, the news agency added. © Agence France-Presse
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AFP) – Leaders of Azerbaijan’s main opposition parties pledged Monday to boycott a snap presidential election which is expected to extend the autocratic rule of President Ilham Aliyev. “The Popular Front party and the National Council of the Opposition took a decision to boycott the snap presidential election,” the Popular Front chairman, Ali Kerimli, told AFP. “The conditions for a democratic and competitive election in Azerbaijan are not in place, and there is no independent […]
by Elman Mamedov Agence France-Presse BAKU, Azerbaijan (AFP) – Azerbaijan’s strongman Ilham Aliyev on Monday called a snap presidential vote for April, six months ahead of schedule, as opposition politicians slammed the surprise move. “Set the date of the election of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on April 11,” Aliyev ordered in a decree posted on his website without providing an immediate explanation for the move. The oil-rich country was initially set to hold the […]
