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Daily Brief

Thursday, 15 May 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * According to South Ossetian President Alan Gagloev, South Ossetia and Abkhazia will soon sign an agreement on duty-free trade. Armenia * Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan has met with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during an official visit to Astana. During the meeting, Simonyan stressed that Armenia is interested in actively expanding bilateral cooperation in the trade-economic sector. * Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan has met with Iranian Ambassador to Armenia

Daily Brief

Wednesday, 14 May 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * On Wednesday morning, Armenia dismissed new Azerbaijani accusations of a ceasefire violation. Armenia * On Tuesday, Defence Minister Suren Papikyan participated in the official opening ceremony of the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting held in Berlin and met his counterparts. Among them was German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius, with whom he discussed the defence sector ‘progress and development prospects’. Papikyan also met the UK Minister for the Armed Forces and held in

Daily Brief

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * CivilNet has reported that Vigen Eoljekjian, a Lebanese–Armenian imprisoned in Azerbaijan since 2020, went on a hunger strike for 15 days in order to be allowed to call his family. His wife, Linda Eoljekjian, said that ‘last week’ they talked to him for the first time since 21 February, for only ‘three minutes’. The family appealed to the Red Cross to learn about his health condition following over two weeks of his hunger strike. Armenia * On Monday night into Tuesday morning,

Daily Brief

Monday, 12 May 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * In an interview with RIA Novosti, Abkhazian President Badra Gunba said that dialogue between Sukhumi (Sukhum) and Tbilisi will only be possible after Georgia recognises Abkhazia. ‘Our priority is to live in peace with all our neighbours. We want good neighbourly relations with Georgia, so that its leadership realises that they are facing an independent state’, Gunba said. * Over the weekend, Armenia reported that on Friday night, Azerbaijan damaged another house in Khnatsakh, Syuni