Azerbaijan

In May 2024, Ukraine exported 1. 61 thousand tons of frozen beef worth $6.34 million, up 22% in volume and 16% in value compared to April 2024.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has dissolved the country's parliament and called early parliamentary elections for September 1, 2024.

Despite efforts to cut off supplies of Russian fossil fuels, gas imports to Europe from Russia in May exceeded those from the United States.

Serhiy Nebotov, a Ukrainian judoka, won a bronze medal in the 73 kg weight category at the European Cup in Podčetrtek, Slovenia, defeating Ibrahim Aliyev of Azerbaijan in the third place match.

European officials are negotiating to keep gas flowing through the pipeline through Ukraine, and one option may be for European companies to buy and pump gas from Azerbaijan to Russian pipelines.

Armenian opposition leader Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan has called for four days of mass protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over the demarcation of the border with Azerbaijan.

In 2023, according to the quota system of the occupation regime, Russian exporters exported at least 34,000 tons of grain worth 6. 2 million euros from the occupied Kherson region of Ukraine.

The first woman, former member of the Iranian parliament Zohre Elahian, has registered as a candidate for the early presidential election in Iran, scheduled after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a plane crash.

The United States is reportedly boycotting a UN commemoration of the late Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi.

The Azerbaijani Border Guard Service has taken control of four villages in the Gazakh region on the border with Armenia, covering an area of 6. 5 square kilometers, after delimitation work identified a 12.7 kilometer long border line near these villages.

During the telephone conversation, Zelensky discussed regional security, bilateral cooperation in energy, trade and other spheres with Azerbaijani President Aliyev.

The helicopter of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi crashed due to a technical malfunction, killing him and other people. The United States assures that it was not involved in the incident.

Iran's President Raisi died in a plane crash, Saudi Arabia's crown prince postponed his visit to Japan due to the king's health, and oil prices remained stable amid political uncertainty in major producing countries.

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and other passengers were killed in a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran, their bodies were found and taken to Tabriz.

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian, and several other officials are killed in a plane crash.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other high-ranking officials were killed when their helicopter crashed, Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri confirmed.

A Turkish drone may have discovered the crash site of the missing helicopter of the Iranian president in the mountains near Iran's borders with Azerbaijan and Turkey.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 2652 companies have been founded by foreigners, with the most active investors being citizens of Turkey, Uzbekistan, Poland, and the United States.

In Sumy region, up to 90% of damaged power supply facilities are restored within 2-3 days after the shelling.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba discussed with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov Russia's strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, thanked Azerbaijan for its humanitarian aid, and coordinated further bilateral contacts.

Tens of thousands of people protested in Yerevan, demanding that the authorities stop the demarcation of the border with Azerbaijan and immediately resign Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Ukraine and Azerbaijan discussed humanitarian cooperation, including Azerbaijan's support in demining Ukrainian land and finalizing updated agreements on combating organized crime and migration policy, during an online meeting between the two countries' interior ministers.

Kuleba discussed the security situation in Ukraine and the South Caucasus with Armenian Foreign Minister Mirzoyan in a telephone conversation.

Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan have signed a memorandum on uniting their energy systems, which will enable cooperation in the production and export of green energy to Europe.

Ukraine has invited Azerbaijan to participate at the highest level in the International Peace Summit in Switzerland and the Conference on the Restoration of Ukraine in Berlin.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes the beginning of the delimitation of the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia on the basis of the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, considering it a prerequisite for normalizing relations and ensuring regional stability and security.

Turkey is seeking a long-term agreement with ExxonMobil to import up to 2. 5 million tons of LNG annually, which would reduce its dependence on russian gas supplies.

Despite Western sanctions, russia is likely to obtain British luxury cars through neighboring countries such as Azerbaijan, where exports from Britain have increased unprecedentedly.

Azerbaijan and Armenia have installed the first border pillar on their state border as part of a delimitation process based on geodetic measurements.

On April 23, Azerbaijan and Armenia begin delimiting their border based on geodetic measurements near several villages on both sides.