Tag: Azerbaijan
In Azerbaijan, a simulacrum of democracy to the glory of President Aliev
A campaign poster of Azerbaijani President and presidential candidate Ilham Aliyev, in Baku on January 15, 2024, the first day of official campaigning ahead of the February 7 election. TOFIK…
Expulsion from Azerbaijan – Nik Gugger: “The ambassador apologized in the conversation” – News
Azerbaijan has refused EPP National Councilor Nik Gugger entry into the country. He traveled to Azerbaijan on Saturday night to observe next Wednesday’s presidential elections for the Organization for Security…
Azerbaijan affair: charges against two former members of the Bundestag
Azerbaijan affair Charges against two former members of the Bundestag January 29, 2024, 4:55 p.m Investigators accuse two former Union parliamentarians of bribery and bribery. They are said to have…
Armenia offers Azerbaijan a non-aggression pact
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Parliament in Yerevan on September 13, 2022. PAN PHOTO / VIA REUTERS The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinian, declared on Sunday January 28 that…
Azerbaijan: a parliamentary committee recommends expelling French companies
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Azerbaijani parliament recommended Thursday to cut all economic ties with France and to expel French companies, including Total, a new example of the deterioration…
Espionage: Azerbaijan calls on France to stop all “interference” in its internal affairs
Azerbaijan called on France on Wednesday to stop all “interference” in its internal affairs, after the arrest of a Frenchman accused of espionage by Baku, which was denounced by Paris…
A Frenchman detained in Azerbaijan for “espionage”
A French businessman, accused of espionage, was arrested in December in Azerbaijan, a few days after the mutual expulsion of diplomats from the two countries against a backdrop of strong…
Azerbaijan appoints former national oil company Mukhtar Babayev as conference president
Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijani Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, at the COP28 summit in Dubai, December 11, 2023. RAFIQ MAQBOOL / AP Azerbaijan has appointed its Minister of Ecology and…
France announces the expulsion of two Azerbaijani diplomats as a “measure of reciprocity”
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on December 26, 2023. VLADIMIR SMIRNOV / AFP Tension continues to rise between Paris and Baku. France decided to expel two Azerbaijani diplomats by “reciprocity…
Azerbaijan announces the expulsion of two French diplomats
Azerbaijan announced on Tuesday the expulsion of two French diplomats for activities “incompatible with their status”, in a context of tensions between the two countries over Paris’ support for Armenia.…
Azerbaijan tipped to host COP29, with support from Moscow
Published on 08/12/2023 at 4:39 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters by Kate Abnett, Alexander Cornwell and Elizabeth…
Azerbaijan and Armenia promise “concrete steps” to normalize relations
After months of impasse and extreme tensions, discussions between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in conflict for more than thirty years for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, have made a notable breakthrough.…