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Friday, 17 January 2025

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Regional * Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to the process of delimiting the northern section of the state border. The first stage concerns the point of intersection bordering Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, and following this, in the southern direction, from north to south, with Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan and Iran. * Ahead of his first court hearing scheduled for 17 January, the detained former Nagorno-Karabakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan published a statement saying that he had

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Thursday, 16 January 2025

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Armenia * Armenian Defence Minister Suren Papikyan has stated he did not see ‘the grounds for an escalation in the region because Armenia has proposals and solutions in terms of any issue’. * A similar statement was made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who also downplayed the possibility of Azerbaijani escalation. In a Facebook post, Pashinyan noted that Armenia has proposed ‘constructive solutions to all existing issues’ in its relations with Azerbaijan and that ‘all efforts to provoke es

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Wednesday, 15 January 2025

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Armenia * Armenia and the US yesterday signed a Strategic Partnership Charter in Washington DC. The document stresses a mutual desire to strengthen relations across the diplomatic, economic, energy, high-tech, educational, scientific, cultural, legal, defence, and security fields. * Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated that the charter ‘provides a robust framework and injects greater ambition into our cooperation’. Mirzoyan added that they commenced negotiations on a nuclear coop

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Tuesday, 14 January 2025

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Regional * Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili met with Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Georgia, Faig Guliyev. Azerbaijani state media outlet Azertac reported that Botchorishvili will visit Azerbaijan on 16 January. Armenia * The Foreign Ministry has announced that Armenia and the US will sign a strategic partnership agreement in Washington, DC today. The document will be signed by Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and US State Secretary Antony Blinken. * Economy Minister Gevorg Papoy

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Monday, 13 January 2025

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Armenia * The Armenian Prime Minister’s spokesperson has stated that Armenia was considering requesting that the OSCE dissolve the Minsk Group. * The EU Commission’s spokesperson for Foreign Affair and Security Policy, Anitta Hipper, has said that the EU will analyse an Armenian EU membership draft bill. Hipper said that the EU plans on discussing the bill with Yerevan. The Armenian government backed the draft bill that would announce the beginning of the process of joining the EU last week.

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Friday, 10 January 2025

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Armenia * The Foreign Ministry has said that there were no reports of Armenian victims in the California fire. A spokesperson for the ministry told Armenpress that Armenia’s Consulate in Los Angeles is operating normally despite the raging forest fires in the state. * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has received an Iranian delegation led by Ali Akbar Ahmadian, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. The two discussed Armenia–Iran relations and cooperation and their collabora

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Thursday, 9 January 2025

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Regional * Yesterday evening, the EU Monitoring Mission in Armenia reported that the situation on the border with Azerbaijan was calm. They said that they did not observe ‘any out of the ordinary movements’ after patrolling the border. The statement follows multiple ceasefire violation accusations from Azerbaijan, which Armenia denied. Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has accused Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev of using a ‘direct and aggressive rhetoric’ towards Armenia. In his