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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 — […]
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 […]
