17 April: Azerbaijan will chair the UN Security Council next month. President Ilham Aliyev announced this at a meeting of the Cabinet this morning. He noted that this was the first time that Azerbaijan will chair “ the biggest, most competent and importan

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16 April: Armenia's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) registered 16,000 local observers and 31 NGOs to monitor the parliamentary elections, according to the Head of the Central Election Commission Tigran Mukuchyan. (agencies)

"Positive first step". World governments have welcomed the discussions held in Istanbul over the weekend between Iran and six world powers.

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14 April: A powerful blast hit a natural gas pipeline connecting Azerbaijan and Russia at around midnight on Friday, the country’s APA news agency said.The agency later reported that the fire had been extinguished. (APA and Ria-Novosti)

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13 April: The Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdoğan traveled to Saudi Arabia on Thursday for discussions on a number of pressing issues. The situation in Syria, Iran’s nuclear program as well as bilateral economic relations will be on the agenda dur

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