Diplomacy

Today it is virtually impossible to imagine the government of almost any country without parliamentarism. But what is the story behind the legislative body that many of us take for granted today?

Armenia has a new parliament, but the ruling party is the same. Armenia’s Snap Parliamentary Elections explained.

After an unprecedented tight race and contested vote counting the US has a new president Joe Biden. Without going into details on Biden’s internal and external policies, it is interesting to concentrate instead on the prospects of changes in the new administration’s policies towards Armenia and the region it is located in.

As Russian-backed Assad forces and Turkish-backed opposition forces clash in the northwestern Idlib province of Syria, many question how far this proxy war can go. Some secon-rate politicians started to recall a history of the past two and more centuries dotted with incessant Russian-Turkish wars. Yet many deliberate that with all the possibility of this clash escalating into a serious souring of relations, there is a lot which will keep those two partners together.

Yesterday, after a four-hour trilateral meeting Nikol Pashinyan, Vladimir Putin, and Ilham Aliev came up with a joint statement, however, in a separate speech Pashinyan indicated that the issue of the return of Armenian POWs is not resolved yet.

Athens announced on the 24th of December that the United Nations had published the Greco-Egyptian agreement on the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) between the two countries; one that Ankara considers “null and void”. Turkey’s Oruc Reis will resume its controversial seismic exploration mission, along with Ataman and Cengizhan vessels, near the shores of the Greek island of Kastellorizo until June 15, 2021. They are considered as Greek-claimed waters of the Eastern Mediterranean. These events are predicted to only further exacerbate Greek-Turkish tensions within the wider region.

Moscow and Ankara signed a document on the establishment of a joint monitoring center in Karabakh.