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Key Takeaways: On 10 August the U.S., Armenia, and Azerbaijan marked one year after the White House summit and restated work on TRIPP—a corridor from Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan across Armenia. The route is not built. Armenia’s Constitutional Court hears the U.S. framework on 15 September; a new Armenian constitution and …

Key Takeaways: IFIMES reads Tokayev’s Bishkek SCO speech as “responsible middle-power” policy: use the SCO’s “Shanghai spirit” and even a UNGA resolution on its principles, but treat the UN as irreplaceable. Kazakhstan would link China, Russia, the EU, the U.S., Turkey, and the Gulf rather than pick a bloc.Tools cited …

For decades Gulf money has poured into luxury property markets, trophy assets and the world’s best-known financial centres. But increasingly it is heading to a former Silk Road hub, where ageing gas infrastructure, a rapidly growing population and economic reforms offer the opportunity to invest in a new energy system. …

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on July 25 at a meeting with Vladimir Putin offered him to stop the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russian military plants buy in Kazakhstan all the ceramics made of beryllium, indispensable for military radars, The Insider found out. Exports of products from this chemical compound …

Le président Ilham Aliyev est un dirigeant rationnel qui pourrait conclure qu’il est préférable de conclure des accords mutuellement avantageux avec la Russie et l’Iran pour résoudre le dilemme sécuritaire de l’Azerbaïdjan, centré sur l’Accord sur les ADPIC, plutôt que de mettre en péril l’avenir de son pays pour faire …

Nothing of tangible significance was achieved despite two years of reported talks. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev revealed during a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that former German officials held secret talks with Russian officials in Baku in mid-July without his knowledge. An investigation by German media revealed that …

A drive by the U.S. and Europe to explore oil and gas opportunities with Azerbaijan must not come at the expense of ignoring human rights restrictions in the gas- and oil-rich post-Soviet state, a jailed opposition figure has told Newsweek. Ali Karimli, chairman of the opposition Azerbaijani Popular Front Party …

Les États-Unis continuent de mener leur politique, mise en œuvre depuis des décennies, visant à maintenir leur primauté mondiale en encerclant et en contenant leurs rivaux, comme le décrit un article du New York Times de 1992 intitulé «Le plan stratégique américain vise à empêcher l’émergence de rivaux». Dans le …

Azerbaijan is rapidly approaching the United States and NATO as Washington shifts its geopolitical attention from the Russian-Ukrainian war to the South Caucasus. Azerbaijan’s expanding military, political and strategic cooperation with the West risks turning the region into a new center of geopolitical confrontation with the participation of Russia, Iran …

L’adhésion officieuse de l’Azerbaïdjan à l’OTAN, via sa conformité aux normes du bloc et son alliance avec la Turquie, s’est désormais étendue à une alliance de facto avec l’Ukraine, ce qui accroît naturellement l’évaluation de la menace que représente l’Azerbaïdjan pour la Russie. La Russie et l’Azerbaïdjan sont parvenus à …