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Sweden leads EU effort to harden position against Israel

Sweden leads EU effort to harden position against Israel

The European Union should harden its stance against Israel and follow in the footsteps of the United Kingdom and other Western allies by issuing sanctions against far-right members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet, Sweden’s foreign minister told Politico. Maria Malmer Stenergard said after meeting in Brussels with Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, that the EU now needs to take a stronger position and increase pressure on the Israeli government.
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Armenia and Azerbaijan Dialogue in the context of the European Political Community

Armenia and Azerbaijan Dialogue in the context of the European Political Community

The latest European Political Community summit held in Tirana in May this year, featured Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev at the time when Baku’s period of bad blood with Brussels seems to be over and Europe once again is viewed as a constructive partner. It is not a coincidence that Aliyev briefly met Pashinyan in Tirana for the first time in months and even had a seemingly friendly conversation with French President Macron despite the two countries’ intense feud.

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25 June: Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Mammadyarov says that the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan intend to work intensively for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; blames Armenia for demanding maximum concessions from Azerbaijan (trend.az)

25 June: Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Mammadyarov says that the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan intend to work intensively for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; blames Armenia for demanding maximum concessions from Azerbaijan (trend.az)

Mammadyarov said that discussions in Kazan focused " on issues of concern, which are obstacle to progress in resolving the conflict.