Tofig Zulfugarov: Matviyenko’s visit is insignificant for Azerbaijan-Russia relations – Aze.Media

Armenia and Azerbaijan Peace Agreement: A step in the right direction...but just a step

The news, released simultaneously in Baku and Yerevan, that Armenia and Azerbaijan had successfully concluded negotiations on a peace agreement is very welcome. Negotiations had been going on for a long time, sometimes in person and sometimes by email, sometimes with the participation of third-party mediators, but most of the time bilaterally without third parties. Armenia and Azerbaijan should be congratulated. The EU, US, Russia and France wer…

Tofig Zulfugarov: Matviyenko’s visit is insignificant for Azerbaijan-Russia relations – Aze.Media

Recently, several key diplomatic events have taken place: a meeting between U.S. presidential advisor Mike Waltz and Hikmet Hajiyev, an aide to Azerbaijan’s president; a visit by Russian Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko to Baku; a direct contact between Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin; the agreement on the text of a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia; and immediately after, an attack on Azerbaijani army posi…

Any Armenia-Azerbaijan treaty must include prisoner release, says Moderna co-founder

Any Armenia-Azerbaijan treaty must include prisoner release, says Moderna co-founder Paula Newton speaks with co-founder and Chair of Moderna, Noubar Afeyan, about his hopes for the release of Ruben Vardanyan, his friend and former official in Nagorno-Karabakh, now being held by…