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Stories under this heading cover the South Caucasus – a region encompassing Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as the unrecognised entities of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Dialogue between Armenians and Azerbaijanis now more important than ever

Dialogue between Armenians and Azerbaijanis now more important than ever

The animosity between Armenians and Azerbaijanis runs deep. The two nations fought many battles against each other. In the wars of the last forty years, tens of thousands of people were killed, hundreds of thousands displaced, and billions of euros were lost in economic harm. On Thursday, 13 March 2025, the two sides finally announced that they had agreed on the text of a peace agreement. The agreement will be signed soon. Within societies, on both sides, there are expectations of what this peace will bring. There is also a sense of uncertainty and confusion, which is being used by spoilers, internal and external. A dialogue involving different segments of society, is now more important than ever. But this dialogue needs to have new characteristics to respond to new realities. LINKS Europe, an organisation that has been involved in many peace initiatives in the South Caucasus in the past, is currently engaged in such a process. It recently launched a new Armenia-Azerbaijan dialogue format in the framework of the European Union's EU4Peace initiative. In the last two weeks, dozens of Armenians and Azerbaijanis, including academics, students, civil society activists, journalists and other professionals, many of them young, were involved. The work is organised in five thematic groups focusing on peace and security, connectivity, environment, governance and gender and equality and in phase 2 of the project, which has just ended, around fifty participants took part in in-person and online meetings, and more than twenty others were involved indirectly. The Chairpersons of the five thematic groups met in Vilnius, 3-6 July to launch the third phase of the program.
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Dozens participate in new Armenia-Azerbaijan dialogue process as societies prepare for the signing of historic peace agreement

Dozens participate in new Armenia-Azerbaijan dialogue process as societies prepare for the signing of historic peace agreement

The governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have recently agreed the text of a historic peace agreement that ends years of animosity and warfare. The agreement is expected to be signed soon. LINKS Europe, which has a long history of engagement with the process of peace in the region, recently launched a new Armenia-Azerbaijan dialogue format in the framework of the European Union's EU4Peace initiative. In the last two weeks dozens of Armenians and Azerbaijanis, including academics, students, civil society activists, journalists and other professionals, many of them young, were involved. The work is organised in five thematic groups focusing on peace and security, connectivity, environment, governance and gender and equality and in phase 2 of the project, which has just ended, around fifty participants took part in in-person and online meetings, and more than twenty others were involved indirectly. The Chairpersons of the five thematic groups met in Vilnius, 3-6 July to launch the third phase of the program. The five thematic groups are now working on separate reports, which are expected to be finished in November and presented to the two governments and other stakeholders. The reports will outline a vision, up to 2040.

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An action of protest against extradition of Ramil Safarov held in front of Hungarian Embassy in Lebanon
An action of protest against extradition of Ramil Safarov held in front of Hungarian Embassy in Lebanon

An action of protest against extradition of Ramil Safarov held in front of Hungarian Embassy in Lebanon

An action of protest against the extradition of Ramil Safarov has been held in front of the Hungarian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The action was organized by the youth wings of three traditional Armenian parties: ARFD, Hnchakyan and Ramkavar-Azatakan.
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Norway shares concern of OSCE MG co-chairs regarding extradition and pardoning of Azerbaijani killer Ramil Safarov
Norway shares concern of OSCE MG co-chairs regarding extradition and pardoning of Azerbaijani killer Ramil Safarov

Norway shares concern of OSCE MG co-chairs regarding extradition and pardoning of Azerbaijani killer Ramil Safarov

Norway shares concern of OSCE MG co-chairs regarding extradition and pardoning of the Azerbaijani killer Ramil Safarov, the statement of Foreign Ministry of Norway says.
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Chairman of European Parliament Delegation to EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee urges Azerbaijan to show commitment to the European values
Chairman of European Parliament Delegation to EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee urges Azerbaijan to show commitment to the European values

Chairman of European Parliament Delegation to EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee urges Azerbaijan to show commitment to the European values

Chairman of the European Parliament Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees Milan Cabrnoch has expressed his deep concern about the Azerbaijani President's decision to pardon Ramil Safarov, who was supposed to serve a life sentence for brutally murdering Gurgen Margaryan, an Armenian military officer, in Hungary in 2004.
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Armenian President: Armenia develops cooperation with both CSTO and NATO as they are not conflicting structures
Armenian President: Armenia develops cooperation with both CSTO and NATO as they are not conflicting structures

Armenian President: Armenia develops cooperation with both CSTO and NATO as they are not conflicting structures

Armenia is successfully developing cooperation with both the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and NATO as they are not conflicting structures, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said during a joint press-conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday.
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Armenian President urges world community not to be too much "politically correct" with respect to Azerbaijan
Armenian President urges world community not to be too much "politically correct" with respect to Azerbaijan

Armenian President urges world community not to be too much "politically correct" with respect to Azerbaijan

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has urged the world community not to be too much "politically correct" with respect to Azerbaijan as this encourages the Azeri authorities to act impudently and to take steps like the pardon of murderer Ramil Safarov.
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NATO Secretary General: Pardoning Safarov is a crime
NATO Secretary General: Pardoning Safarov is a crime

NATO Secretary General: Pardoning Safarov is a crime

Extradition of Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov and Azerbaijani president's decision to pardon the murderer hinder confidence building between Armenia and Azerbaijan, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a joint press conference with President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, Thursday in Yerevan.
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Lithuanian FM: "We are interested in stability in South Caucasus"
Lithuanian FM: "We are interested in stability in South Caucasus"

Lithuanian FM: "We are interested in stability in South Caucasus"

Lithuania is interested in stability of the South Caucasus, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronis Azubalis said at the Ministerial Meeting of Nordic Baltic Eight, NBB in Vilnius, when commenting on extradition of Azerbaijani murderer Ramil Safarov and Yerevan's protests against that.
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Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic addressed a letter to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in connection with Safarov's extradition
Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic addressed a letter to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in connection with Safarov's extradition

Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic addressed a letter to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in connection with Safarov's extradition

In connection with the extradition and presidential pardon for Ramil Safarov, Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Vassily Atajanyan addressed a letter to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore.