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Ilham Aliyev: "We need to concentrate on the future"
15 March 2021
The Azerbaijani president told the visiting head of the OSCE that his country's conflict with Armenia was "already in the history and we need to look to the future".
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Armenian president calls for government and opposition to meet on Saturday amid continuing standoff on future of army command
10 March 2021
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has issued an open invitation to prime minister Nikol Pashinyan and the leaders of the opposition to a meet amid a continuing political crisis and an impasse on the command of the armed forces. Pashinyan had a meeting with the army leadership this afternoon
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Armenian Armed Forces Chief of Staff formally dismissed
10 March 2021
The Chief of Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Colonel General Onik Gasparyan, has been formally dismissed from his post, the office of Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday morning (10 March). The dismissal of Gasparyan has been at the centre of political and constitutional controversy for two weeks.
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Opinion: What the ECHR’s Russia ruling means for Georgia
2 March 2021
On 21 January this year, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia responsible for a number of major human rights violations during the 2008 war against Georgia. In this opinion piece, Erekle Koplatadze gives his perspective on what this decision means.
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Charles Michel: “The political dialogue in Georgia is re-launched tonight”
2 March 2021
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, mediated talks over the political crisis in Georgia yesterday evening. The meeting between the governing party and the country’s opposition parties was called after Michel held separate meetings with each earlier in the day.
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Charles Michel calls parties to “step up their efforts” to end to Georgia’s political crisis
1 March 2021
During his visit to Georgia, Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, has called for an end to the country's political crisis, referring to it as “of great concern to the European Union” and asking all parties to “step up their efforts to de-escalate the situation and come together to find common ground”.