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Regional * Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan has seemingly contradicted Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safaryan’s statement yesterday that Armenia is not considering withdrawing from the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) at this stage. In response to a reporter’s question about why Armenia was not leaving the CSTO if it was not fulfilling its obligations, Simonyan said ‘in fact, we are out. As for the rest, leave that to our political expediency and our negotiation’. * Simo
Regional * Azerbaijani lorries have been held at customs checkpoints in Batumi and Tbilisi for over 20 days, wrote Report. Aslan Karimov, a lorry driver, told the publication that they were not provided with any answers as to why they were being held up. The problem appears to have only affected vehicles carrying tobacco. Armenia * Narek Karapetyan has claimed in a video address that his uncle, detained business tycoon Samvel Karapetyan, had spent ֏11 billion ($29 million) from his own fun
Regional * RFE/RL reported that Armenian civil society representatives who visited Azerbaijan on 21–22 November requested to meet with Armenian prisoners held in Baku were denied. A member of the delegation, Naira Sultanyan, stressed that both sides did not impose any restrictions on them raising this issue. ‘Unfortunately, we did not receive a clear and specific answer regarding the number and names of those detained’, Sultanyan said, according to RFE/RL Armenia * Armenian emergency servi
Regional * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in Astana that the US-brokered Trump Route will significantly boost Armenia’s export potential and deepen economic cooperation with Kazakhstan. Speaking alongside Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Pashinyan reiterated that Armenia and Azerbaijan had already agreed to open routes between them based on sovereignty, territorial integrity and reciprocity, and noted that the initialled peace agreement anchors these principles through the
