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Regional * Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, criticised the Trump Route (TRIPP) during a meeting with Armenia’s Ambassador to Iran, Grigor Hakobyan, on Monday, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. Velayati said that TRIPP ‘is effectively the same as the Zangezur corridor project’, adding that Tehran ‘is firmly opposed to it’. * Commemorative actions in memory of Aishat Baymuradova, a native of Chechnya who was killed in Yerevan, took place i
Regional * Armenian companies interested in importing Azerbaijani fuel have been engaged in ongoing talks with Azerbaijan, Armenian Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan told RFE/RL, without disclosing the names of the companies. * The Investigative Committee of Armenia has completed its work with the body of murdered Chechen woman Aishat Baymuradova, who had earlier fled her family due to violence. A request has been sent to Russia for the transfer of the body for burial, but there has still been
Regional * On Thursday, Karen Avanesyan, one of the few Armenians who remained in Nagorno-Karabakh, stood trial in Azerbaijan on charges of planning an ‘armed provocation’. * Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians held in Azerbaijan delivered some of their final statements yesterday. Levon Balayan and Garik Martirosyan pleaded not guilty in their statements, Madat Babayan stated that he did not kill anyone but merely fired into the air, and Melikset Pashayan said he did not participate in combat operatio
Regional * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has made an ‘open and public proposal’ to Azerbaijan to ‘adopt a joint roadmap aimed at simultaneously’ putting aside Baku’s ‘western Azerbaijan’ narratives and the return of Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh. ‘Because removing this issue means, from a long-term strategic perspective, eliminating any potential conflict situation’, Pashinyan said. Armenia * Pashinyan’s plane was forced to land in St. Petersburg, instead of Moscow, after circlin
