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Regional * On Thursday, Azerbaijan will ship a second batch of fuel to Armenia, Azerbaijani pro-government APA reported. The shipment will include ‘1,000 tons of 92-octane gasoline, 1,000 tons of diesel fuel, and 1,800 tons of 95-octane gasoline’. In December 2025, in a historic first, Azerbaijan sent a shipment of petrol to Armenia through Georgia. Armenia * Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi has visited Armenia for ‘political consultations’, Iranian Mehr Agency report
Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is scheduled to lead an anti-Catholicos Karekin II march in Yerevan in the afternoon, following the Christmas liturgy. * The acting head of the Armenian Diocese of Switzerland, Proto-Archimandrite Goossan Aljanian, has joined a ‘church reform’ statement signed by 10 senior clergy members alongside Pashinyan. The statement announced the launch of church ‘reforms’ and renewed demands for the resignation of Karekin II. Shortly after Aljanian’s statement,
Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has published a statement on the reform of the Armenian Apostolic Church, signed by himself and 10 senior clergymen. The document outlines a roadmap for reform to be implemented by a ‘Coordinating Council’ composed of the signatories. One of the document’s stated aims is the removal of Karekin II from office. * Pashinyan has also called for an anti-Karekin II march in Yerevan tomorrow to coincide with Armenia’s Christmas celebrations. The march is desc
Editor’s note: We will be taking a very brief break from publishing the daily brief between 29 December and and 2 January. Thank you for reading us every day, see you soon, and happy holidays! Regional * Azerbaijan has sentenced Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian Karen Avanesyan, who according to RFE/RL has mental health issues, to 16 years in prison on charges of terrorism. Avanesyan was one of the handful Armenians who stayed in Nagorno-Karabakh after the 2023 exodus. He was arrested in September 2
