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The high-level meeting in Brussels on 5 April between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen focused on discussion of economic and humanitarian issues in Armenia. According to official sources, it didn’t touch on the topics of security...

By the end of April 2024 over half the geodetic measurements required for the delimitation of the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia had been completed and 35 border posts had been established. According to officials, this represents significant progress in the challenging process of defining the border between the two...

This article, which was published on the website of the Baku Press Club, sets out the recent trends in military spending priorities in Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2020. At the end of a bloody three-year period it seemed as though the two adversaries would slow the tempo of militarisation and...

Border issues between Armenia and Azerbaijan have always maintained their relevance, existing long before the emergence of the two contemporary states. The border between the first independent republics in 1918-1920 remained fairly conventional up until their Sovietization. And even after this, border issues between the “brotherly” Soviet republics remained subjects...

In Yerevan there’s a barrel that’s known as the Peace Barrel. In 2010 the Caucasus regional freedom of information network held a meeting in Yerevan. After the meeting, which was organised by the George Washington University (USA) National Security Archive, the local partners took us on a tour of the...

Experts and political analysts have played and continue to play an important role in facilitating understanding of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Although the media and other public platforms are full of reports and opinions which distort the facts, political analysis nevertheless has an influence, directly or indirectly shaping public opinion and...

“The conflict itself is over and now the bargaining is underway”. Pressklub.az interviewed manager of the joint peacebuilding project Crossroads, Arin Melikyan (Yerevan) — How would you assess the current state of the peace process between Baku and Yerevan? Can it be described as satisfactory? — There’s no proper peace...

WHEN WAR WAS GIVEN A CHANCE How the military crisis in Karabakh was perceived outside the region As part of their joint ‘Line of Contact’ initiative, the Baku and Yerevan Press Clubs organised a discussion to explore how the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict has been perceived abroad. The conversation looked at views...

A policy brief on mutual insecurity as a factor in Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, published by the Karabakh Contact Group in 2015.