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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
Regional * Armenia’s Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan has announced that Russian wheat is currently being transported to Armenia by rail through Azerbaijani territory, marking the first such shipment since Baku lifted its transit ban. Papoyan added that Kazakh wheat is also en route and will reach Armenia ‘in the coming days,’ again transiting through Azerbaijan. * Abkhazian authorities have arrested Armenian national Gor Asatryan, who was illegally living in Abkhazia. Asatryan was on an Inter
