Day: January 8, 2024

Moreover, Baku recommended the US “not to pour water on the mill of pro-#Armenia|n forces.”
Earlier, the US State Department included #Azerbaijan in the list of countries for special monitoring for serious violations of religious freedom. 2/2#USA #SouthCaucasus

— Karina Karapetyan (@KarinaKarapety8) January 8, 2024

Baku accuses Washington
The State Committee for Work with Religious Structures of #Azerbaijan called the US report on religious freedom in 2023 “biased and false”. Baku considers it a “means of political manipulation.” 1/2#USA #SouthCaucasus pic.twitter.com/YrboCr0EYN

— Karina Karapetyan (@KarinaKarapety8) January 8, 2024

Armenia will have to accept Baku’s demands on issues of transit and border delimitation

Azerbaijani athlete Anna Yusupova set a country record in marathon running.

The full restoration of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and the country’s sovereignty within international legal boundaries creates the first real chance for it to sign a peace agreement with Armenia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Ukraine can only dream of.

Iran has clear positions regarding the situation in the South Caucasus region and transit corridors, he noted, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said at a press briefing.

“We are making a lot of efforts to establish peace, stability, and security in the regional countries,” he said.

“We emphasize that developing transit cooperation cannot be a basis for geopolitical changes and violation of the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of countries,” Kanaani said.

Azerbaijan’s ecology minister has been named to lead the United Nations’ annual climate talks later this year, prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company in a major oil-producing nation, the Associated Press reports.

Mukhtar Babayev’s appointment was announced on X by the United Arab Emirates, which hosted the climate talks that ended in December, and confirmed Friday by the United Nations.

Babayev, 56, has been his country’s minister for ecology and natural resources since 2018. Before that, he worked at Azerbaijan’s state oil company for more than two decades.

Oil and natural gas bring in around 90% of Azerbaijan’s export revenues and finance around 60% of the government budget, according to the International Energy Agency. Climate activists said the country needs to look past its own fossil fuel interests if it’s going to host successful talks.

Azerbaijan names a former oil executive to lead 2024 climate talks – Public Radio of Armenia  Public Radio of Armenia