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Regional * Armenian Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan said in his speech at the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Turkey that the release of 19 Armenian detainees held in Azerbaijan and clarification of the fate of missing people should be achieved in order to ‘achieve genuine reconciliation’. * A meeting between Simonyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahiba Gafarova has begun in Istanbul. APA wrote that the meeting is taking place within the framework of the 152nd session of t
Regional * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that ‘despite the complex international situation’, the TRIPP project remains ‘priority’ for the governments of Armenia, the US, and Azerbaijan. * Russia and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement in which Moscow will pay compensation to the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines crash, which was mistakenly downed by a Russian anti-air missile in December 2024. The agreement comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Aze
Regional * A criminal case regarding the death of North Ossetian man Oleg Gusov, who reportedly died in 2024 after drinking contaminated water from the Armenian company Jermuk, has been reopened in Russia. Armenia * Two members of Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan’s party, Gohar Ghumashyan and Verzhine Stepanyan, have been placed under administrative supervision following their arrests on Tuesday. Ghumashyan’s case concerns an alleged violation of the ban on charity during the
Regional * Today, 22 freight wagons of Russian diesel were shipped from Azerbaijan to Armenia. In addition, APA wrote that four freight wagons of fertilizer, ‘totaling 240 tonnes, were shipped from Russia via Azerbaijan to Armenia’. Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with major business representatives of Armenia yesterday. He suggested that the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan has created ‘horizons’ for Armenia which it ‘never had in its history’, adding that the mes
