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From Blighty with love – UK charm offensive in Central Asia is well thought through

From Blighty with love – UK charm offensive in Central Asia is well thought through

UK Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, conducted a whirlwind tour of the five Central Asian countries and Mongolia in the last days, visiting countries that had never before been visited by a British Foreign Secretary. There is very little you can do on a trip like this when you are in a country for one day, sometimes for a few hours. But this visit was well prepared and was part of a well-thought-through British strategy to engage with Central Asia.

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Ramiz Mehdiyev fires a shot across the bows on Karabakh

Ramiz Mehdiyev fires a shot across the bows on Karabakh

In a rare intervention on the topic of the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, the veteran head of the Azerbaijani presidential administration says that Pashinyan’s administration is not interested in continuing negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the conflict, and is trying to shift the responsibility in this matter to others.
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EU expresses support for judicial reforms in Armenia

EU expresses support for judicial reforms in Armenia

The Head of the EU delegation in Yerevan, Ambassador Switalski, told journalists on Tuesday that one main reason why reforms were needed was that the public had no trust in the judicial system, and this was borne out by a study conducted last year by the EU
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A feeling of deja vue in the Caucasus as US beats war drums on Iran

A feeling of deja vue in the Caucasus as US beats war drums on Iran

The governments in the South Caucasus are looking at developments with a sense of trepidation. All three have important trade and commercial relations with Iran, and the prospect of an all-out confrontation between the Islamic Republic and the US puts all three in a difficult position.