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Monday, 8 December 2025

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Regional * US President Donald Trump has written a letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, thanking him and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for their joint nomination of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘I am deeply appreciative of your kind recognition, which inspires us to sustain our important mission’, Trump wrote in the letter. * On Saturday, Secretary of the Armenian Security Council, Armen Grigoryan, held a panel discussion with Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmat Hajiye

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Friday, 5 December 2025

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Regional * Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has commended the ‘Western Azerbaijan Community’ for its ‘restrained, constructive approach, openness to reconciliation and dialogue, […] and its respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states’. ‘Western Azerbaijan' is an irredentist concept used by the Azerbaijani authorities to lay claim to the territory of modern-day Armenia. Aliyev added that he believed ‘the peace-loving members of the Western Azerbaijan Community will return

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Thursday, 4 December 2025

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Armenia * ‘Turkey is considering reopening its land border with Armenia in the next six months’, Bloomberg has reported, citing ‘people familiar with the matter’. * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan directly accused Catholicos Karekin II of being a foreign agent. On Wednesday, at the Parliament, Pashinyan said he did not need a Catholicos who would obey him, but one ‘who will not obey a senior lieutenant of a foreign special service and will not report to lieutenants of a foreign special service

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Wednesday, 3 December 2025

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Armenia * On Tuesday, the Armenian Government published a number of documents related to the negotiation for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The published documents created heated discussions online, further intensifying the spate of mutual accusation current and former leaders have been levying at each other regarding the negotiations. The documents were published a day after the OSCE Minsk group ceased its activities. Azerbaijan * The trial of the imprisoned Meydan TV jo

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Tuesday, 2 December 2025

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Armenia * Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will pay a visit to Brussels, where the Armenia–EU Partnership Council meeting will be held. The sides are expected to sign a new partnership agreement. Azerbaijan * Yesterday, Amnesty International condemned the detention of Ali Karimli, chair of the opposition Popular Front Party. Denis Krivosheev, the organisation’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, stated that this is ‘further evidence’ of the strengthening of the authoritar

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Monday, 1 December 2025

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Regional * On 28 November, the Armenian and Azerbaijani commissions on border delimitation held a meeting in the city of Gabala, Azerbaijan, marking their first such meeting inside either country. They agreed to set the date of the next meeting in an Armenian city. Armenia * Ten high-ranking priests have released a statement saying they expected Catholicos Karekin II ‘will voluntarily go on leave, and in this way, it will be possible to organise new elections’. The statement follows their

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Friday, 28 November 2025

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Regional * Azerbaijan and Georgia have taken part in military drills in Ankara with Turkey. Armenia * Armenia’s Justice Minister Srbuhi Galyan said the draft of the country’s new constitution must be finalised by March, as the Constitutional Reform Council held its latest meeting to review provisions related to the Prosecutor’s Office and investigative bodies. In a video released by the ministry, Galyan reiterated the government’s commitment to delivering the text within the set deadline,