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Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to meet in Vienna on Friday

27 March 2019

Official sources in Baku and Yerevan confirmed the long-anticipated meeting simultaneously on Wednesday morning. Commonspace.eu political editor said in a comment that expectations from the meeting should be modest but not non-existent, and what is needed most at this point is a sense of realism on both sides.

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Opinion: Armenia's "other choices"?

27 March 2019

Benyamin Poghosyan argues in this op-ed for commonspace.eu that it is time for Armenia to deepen its relations with Iran and China, out of necessity rather than choice.

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NATO Secretary-General visits Georgia

26 March 2019

Last summer in Brussels, NATO leaders reconfirmed the 2008 Bucharest Summit decision that Georgia will become a member of NATO. In Tbilisi, the Secretary General praised Georgia's progress in making important reforms and encouraged it to continue these efforts.

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Armenian and Georgian prime ministers hold informal meeting

25 March 2019

The website of the Armenian government said that Nikol Pashinyan and Mamuka Bakhtadze "emphasised the importance of Armenian-Georgian relations in all spheres and expressed confidence that further active cooperation will promote the development and expansion of cooperation between the two neighbouring and friendly states in a number of directions".

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UN Human Rights Council calls for unimpeded access to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

23 March 2019

Addressing the Council meeting in Geneva, ahead of the vote on Friday (22 March), Georgia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Lasha Darsalia, said that the recent death of Irakli Kvaratskhelia whilst in detention in Abkhazia highlighted the urgency of the matter.

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Opinion: Ahmad Alili says there is still hope in the wisdom of the leaders and their ability to lead their nations out of conflict to peace.

21 March 2019

Baku softened its rhetoric on Karabakh following the velvet revolution in Armenia. Nikol Pashinyan's statements however have disappointed Baku at a time when its room for manoeuvre is limited.

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Aliyev: "Conflict resolution will lead to peace and stability in the region"

20 March 2019

In the address on the occasion of the Novruz holiday the president of Azerbaijan said his country has entered a new period of reforms. "Reforms will be further deepened. There is no alternative to that. Political reforms, economic reforms, reforms in the social sphere, reforms in the judicial system"

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End of an era in Kazakhstan after Nazarbayev announces his resignation

20 March 2019

In recent years Nazarbayev played a role of father figure in the councils of the institutions that succeeded the Soviet Union, such as the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation and the Eurasian Economic Union.

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Pashinyan: "We will not refuse to dialogue, and we will carefully listen to the counterarguments of our colleagues"

19 March 2019

Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan held a press conference in Yerevan on Tuesday, during which he reviewed progress in the work of his government and addressed a number of topical issues, including future negotiations to resolve the Karabakh conflict.

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Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to meet in Vienna on Friday

Opinion: Armenia's "other choices"?

NATO Secretary-General visits Georgia

Armenian and Georgian prime ministers hold informal meeting

UN Human Rights Council calls for unimpeded access to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Opinion: Ahmad Alili says there is still hope in the wisdom of the leaders and their ability to lead their nations out of conflict to peace.

Aliyev: "Conflict resolution will lead to peace and stability in the region"

End of an era in Kazakhstan after Nazarbayev announces his resignation

Pashinyan: "We will not refuse to dialogue, and we will carefully listen to the counterarguments of our colleagues"