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Sultan of Oman signs key agreements with Spain
10 November 2025
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- Armenia and Azerbaijan are on the way to peace, but the process is far from complete or irreversible
- "In 2025, with the dawn of peace, good governance is increasingly a priority for the citizens of Armenia and Azerbaijan"
- “Strengthening connectivity in the South Caucasus holds the potential to transform the region into a more stable, economically resilient, and cooperative space”
- Two women bring environment to the fore in Armenian-Azerbaijani relations
- Peace and Security: Armenian and Azerbaijani Group says "the conflict is over". "It is in the hands of our nations now, to make this peace secure and lasting."
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Rubio plans to visit all five Central Asian countries as Trump hosts their leaders in Washington
6 November 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday 5th November that he planned to visit the five Central Asian countries in the coming year, as he met their foreign ministers as part of a Trump administration charm offensive aimed at the resource-rich region. The presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are set to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on 6th November for talks that are likely to include discussions of rare earths minerals and other resources in the Central Asian nations.
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NATO sends additional military forces to Eastern Europe because of Russian threat
24 January 2022
NATO is sending extra reinforcements to its member states in Eastern European because of Russia's military troop build-up on the border with Ukraine. The deployment includes frigates, fighter jets and troops for "collective defence". The reinforcements will be stationed in the Baltic Sea and Lithuania, among other places. A Russian invasion of Ukraine now appears increasingly likely, and the US and a number of western countries have evacuated non essential staff from their missions in Kyiv.
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US tells Russia in no uncertain terms: Don't do it!
22 January 2022
The US, NATO, the EU and their members and partners believe Russia is about to intervene militarily in Ukraine. The message from US Secretary of State Blinken to Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, at their talks in Geneva on Friday was clear and simple, "Don't do it, because the consequences will be swift and severe".
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In Tehran, at Friday prayers they hail Raisi's visit to Moscow
21 January 2022
Russia this week rolled out the red carpet for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. His visit included a rare invitation to address the State Duma, as well as a long meeting with president Putin. Raisi gave Putin the draft of "a document on strategic cooperation between our two countries" which he said can determine or at least clarify the co-operation between the two countries for the next two decades.
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Aliyev in "excellent meeting" with EU diplomats to follow-up on December discussions in Brussels
21 January 2022
A delegation of EU diplomats is currently in the South Caucasus to follow-up on discussions held in Brussels last December in the framework of the VI Eastern Partnership Summit, particularly as related to Armenia-Azerbaijan relations. The delegation is led by Toivo Klaar, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Isabel Dumont, the French President's Adviser on Continental Europe and Turkey. France currently has the rotating presidency of the European Union.
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Blinken flies to Europe as fears increase of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine
19 January 2022
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Kiev for talks with the Ukrainian leadership as fears increase of an imminent Russian invasion. In Brussels, European Union officials are bracing themselves for the biggest crisis on the European continent since the war in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. There are still some hopes that Russia will de-escalate the situation, but most observers think this is now unlikely and that some sort of aggression - even if not an all-out invasion - is imminent.