Azerbaijan

21 September 2023; MEMO: Director General of Israeli Defence Ministry, Eyal Zamir, visited Azerbaijan two days before clashes erupted with Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.

Members of the Israeli delegation met with their Azeri counterparts, including Defence Minister, Zakir Hasanov, The Times of Israel said, pointing out that the visit came amid stepped-up Israeli arms supplies to Azerbaijan.

BAKU, September 20. /TASS/: Azerbaijan has drafted a plan for the integration of Karabakh's Armenian population, presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev told a news briefing in Baku.

"The government agencies concerned have developed a comprehensive plan for the socio-economic integration of Karabakh's Armenians," Hajiyev emphasized.

He added that this integration was Azerbaijan's internal affair, but Baku was ready to study the humanitarian needs of the Armenian population in the region. "We are open to negotiations," Hajiyev noted.

SHUSHA (Azerbaijan), Jul 21 (APP): President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev inaugurated the first-ever Global Media Forum on “New Media in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution” here on Friday.

The media forum was organized on the occasion of the 148th anniversary of the Azerbaijan National Press which brought together 150 participants from 49 countries, including 34 state news agencies – Associated Press of Pakistan among them – and 12 international and media organizations, besides 60 local media heads and representatives.

BAKU, June 23. /TASS/: Any peace agreement reached by Baku and Yerevan should take into account post-war realities, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday.

"This peace treaty must be signed on the basis of the norms and principles of international law. And this peace treaty should take into account post-war realities," the Azertac news agency quoted him as saying.

13 June 2023; MEMO: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today welcomed his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan with an official ceremony in the capital Baku.

Erdogan arrived in Azerbaijan yesterday after his visit to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) as part of his first foreign tour following his 28 May reelection.

25 Apr 2023; MEMO: Israel's defence industry enterprises will supply Azerbaijan with two satellites worth $120 million in total, Azerbaijan news outlet, Haqqin.az, reports.

This was reported by an Israeli journalist who accompanied Israel's Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, during his visit to Azerbaijan on Tuesday and Wednesday, and published an article on its results, citing the FM's office and a source in Israel's security forces.

20 Apr 2023; MEMO: Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, has arrived in Azerbaijan where he has met with President Ilham Aliyev in Baku as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral ties and to confront mutual perceived threats from Iran.

15 Apr 2023; MEMO: The Azerbaijani delegation has withdrawn from the European Weightlifting Championships at the Armenian capital after the country's flag was burned at the opening ceremony.

A statement from Azerbaijan's Ministry of Sports and the National Olympic Committee said on Saturday that the flag was demonstratively burned by an officially accredited person at the opening ceremony of the European Weightlifting Championship in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Friday.

BAKU (Azerbaijan), March 3 (NNN-KBC) — Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has applauded the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member countries under the leadership of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev for spearheading a rigorous campaign for access of vaccines during the tough COVID-19 pandemic period.

BAKU, March 3 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) will create a high-level panel for global recovery from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, announced the head of state of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.    

The initiative was communicated at the inauguration of a summit meeting of the NAM contact group for counteracting the health crisis created by the disease.