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Reuters
4 days ago
- Business
- Reuters
Azerbaijan, BP sign agreements on solar power plant in Karabakh
BAKU, June 2 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan and BP (BP.L), opens new tab signed agreements on building a 240 megawatt solar power plant in Karabakh, an Azerbaijani region retaken in 2023 from breakaway ethnic Armenian authorities. BP announced the project at an energy conference in Baku, saying that the construction would be valued at around $200 million and be completed by mid 2027.
Al Arabiya
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Iran, Azerbaijan hold joint military drill
Iran and Azerbaijan have launched a joint special forces exercise, state media in the Islamic Republic said Sunday, weeks after Iran's president visited the neighboring country. The 'Aras-2025' exercise, running through May 21, involves Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Azerbaijani troops, the IRNA news agency reported. The drill was being held in areas of Karabakh previously disputed with Armenia before Azerbaijan regained control in September 2023. 'This drill is a key step in boosting border security and confronting potential threats,' said Brigadier General Vali Madani of the IRGC's ground forces. Last month, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian made a rare visit to Baku, where he met his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev. 'Iran will make efforts to ensure that its relations with Azerbaijan are strategic across all spheres,' Pezeshkian said at the time. Ties between the two neighbors were strained over Azerbaijan's close security cooperation with Israel and a deadly 2023 attack on its embassy in Tehran. Baku reopened the embassy in mid-2024 and the attacker was sentenced to death. Tehran has been strongly opposed to the so-called Zangezur corridor linking Azerbaijan to Turkey which would run along Iran's border with Armenia. In November, the two countries held a joint naval exercise in the Caspian Sea.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Armenia and Azerbaijan's leaders meet briefly in Tirana as peace agreement momentum continues
Armenia and Azerbaijan's leaders held a brief discussion in Tirana on Friday during the European Political Community Summit. The Armenian government then issued a statement saying that both sides 'underlined the need for continued progress towards signing' the peace agreement between the two countries. 'The parties mutually emphasised the importance of finalising the text of the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement. They discussed the current situation and underlined the need for continued progress toward signing,' the Armenian government press release said. A video from the EPC summit shows Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addressing Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in the corridors of the EPC summit in what appears to be an impromptu encounter. In the video, Pashinyan says, 'Let's go have a coffee,' to which Aliyev replies, 'I'll come by after the talks.' Another video shows the two leaders having a seated conversation afterwards, surrounded by officials from both countries. The meeting signals a continuing momentum after the two South Caucasus rival neighbours announced in March that they had finalised the text of a historic peace agreement to end decades of war over the Karabakh region. The timeline for the conclusion of the agreement and its signing by both countries remains to be defined.
