Topic: Syunik

ANKARA (Azatutyun) — Turkey has again demanded that Armenia agree to open an extraterritorial land corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavusoglu indicated on October[...]

The main topic of international politics is the development of the new world order, which is more intensely felt and fought in the Caucasus. Recently, two major summits were held,[...]

By Naira Nalbandian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Iran has appointed a consul general to the town of Kapan in southern Armenia, the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Yerevan told Armenpress news agency.[...]

By Artak Khulian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Citing increased drug trafficking and other illegal cross-border activities, Russian border guards controlling Armenia’s border with Iran have set up checkpoints along several roads[...]

BAKU (RFE/RL) — Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on June 16 warned Armenia against bringing up the status of Nagorno-Karabakh in peace talks with Azerbaijan and again demanded a land corridor[...]

YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — Over the past two months Azerbaijani customs officers have collected 2 million manats ($1.1 million) in customs payments at Goris-Kapan roadway which passes through Armenia’s Syunik region.[...]

By Avo Piroyan On 7 December, a video circulated on social media channels of Armenia’s Parliamentary Speaker, Alen Simonyan, criticizing Armenian prisoners of war in Azerbaijan and questioning their intent/goals[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on December 7 again threatened to forcibly open a land “corridor” that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave via Armenia southeastern Syunik[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan must be prosecuted for handing over strategic areas along Armenia southeastern Syunik province to Azerbaijan shortly after last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh, the main[...]

TEHRAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent his foreign minister to Tehran on Monday, October 4, one day after publicly ruling out Armenia’s involvement in any anti-Iranian “plots” amid[...]