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Armenia * Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan met with his Saudi counterpart Faisal Alibrahim in Riyadh to discuss prospects for expanding trade and investment cooperation, the ministry said in a statement. The ministers discussed opportunities in technology, energy, agriculture, and tourism, with the Saudi side expressing readiness to sign a memorandum of cooperation and related agreements to enhance bilateral economic ties. * An Armenian court has authorised the exhumation of Poghos Poghosyan,
Regional * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced that documents related to Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations will be made public before the end of the year. Responding to recent statements made by former presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, Pashinyan said their remarks reaffirm that ‘the Karabakh issue was a rope in the hands of certain forces to tie the Republic of Armenia to the nearest tree.’ Azerbaijan * Afiaddin Mammadov, the imprisoned chair of the Workers Tabl
Regional * US President Donald Trump said he was ‘sincerely honoured’ that the new route between Azerbaijan and Armenia had been named after him. Speaking at the C5+1 summit, Trump said the project aims to boost trade through the Caspian Sea and promote development across Central Asia, calling it a ‘road to international peace’. Armenia * The Interior Ministry has published an outline of the EU–Armenia Visa Liberalisation Action Plan, officially handed over to Yerevan on 5 November. The pl
Regional * Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, has praised the ‘resilience’ of the Georgian authorities, claiming they managed to ‘resist destructive actions aimed at destabilising the situation during the elections’. * Shoigu further noted that ‘the situation in the South Caucasus has become stable’, while emphasising Russia’s role in the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace process. ‘A great contribution was made by the participating countries. Of course, I mean Russia, because so
