It has been better known for its great parties and for its Gucci dressed leaders, so the sight of members of IRELI demonstrating on the streets of Baku to protest at the recent decision of the French senate criminalising the Armenian genocide is a good indicator of feelings in Baku on this issue.
25 January: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is expected to pay a visit to Russia and he will attend a meeting of the Russian-Turkish Joint Strategic Planning Group on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in an
25 January: An Azerbaijani citizen was caught at 3.25 p.m. on Tuesday trying to cross the contact line separating Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. The soldier was in a uniform of Azerbaijani Armed Forces, without any distinguishing signs and had a militar
The US leader said "America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal." He also added that "a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible, and far better, and if Iran changes course and meets its obligations, it can rejoin the community of nations."
Turkey vowed to take reprisals against France after the French Senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny that the massacre of Armenians in 1915 was genocide
24 January: The United Nations held six hours of "intensive" talks on Monday with the leaders of Cyprus as it began a new attempt to break a deadlock in peace talks. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a two-day meeting with the divided isla