Author: Zaal Khomeriki

Will Germany provide military support to Israel if Iran attacks? German politicians remain cautious about this possibility, though some say that refueling aircraft would be conceivable. At the end of July, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who belongs to the center-left Social Democrats, visited Hawaii where two German warships, including the Baden-Württemberg frigate, were participating in the US-led naval Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) military exercise. Despite the distance, Pistorius could not ignore the escalation between Israel, Hamas and Iran. With regard to a potential Iranian attack on Israel, Pistorius told DW correspondent Michaela Küfner that “we don’t need that. We don’t want that.” …

Russian shelling killed seven people, including a 22-day-old infant, and wounded at least 22 in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson on Sunday, prompting local officials to declare Monday a day of mourning and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to promise justice. Kyiv reclaimed part of Kherson from Russian occupation last November but Kremlin troops have continued shelling the regional capital and areas around it from across the Dnipro River. Five people were killed in the village of Shyroka Balka, including a 22-day-old girl, her 12-year-old brother who died from serious injuries in hospital, and their 39-year-old mother, Olesia, Zelenskiy said. “The terrorists…

The 21st Autumn Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) will be held between November 18 and 20 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The aforementioned decision was made by the PA standing committee on June 30, during the summer meeting of the OSCE PA in Vancouver, Canada. The National Assembly of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that Azerbaijan will not participate in the upcoming autumn meeting of the OSCE PA. As reported earlier, the holding this event in Yerevan will give Armenia the opportunity to host around 350 MPs of the delegations of the 57 OSCE member states. During the…

London (06/11 – 58) France and the United Kingdom (UK) have jointly made a request in favour of Sri Lanka to the court of the Southern District of New York, for a six-month freeze on any litigation in the Hamilton Reserve Bank case until Sri Lanka’s external debt restructuring is completed, the Financial Times reported. Accordingly, last week the two countries filed a joint “amicus curiae” to the New York judge hearing the case, arguing in favour of Sri Lanka’s request for a six-month freeze on any litigation. The co-signatories in their “amicus curiae” want the judge to grant Sri…

Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Armenia, Artur Martirosyan, attended a panel discussion entitled “Building a Flexible Future: Role of the Youth in Facing the Current Challenges of Armenia and Europe” The Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Vassilis Maragos, was also in attendance to this event, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Armenia informs Armenian News-NEWS.am. The discussion was organized within the framework of the annual meeting of the coordinators of the Understanding Europe program, in which about 40 youth from Armenia and ten European countries participated. Welcoming the…

Toronto, Alaska (16/11 – 50) Our lives are being maneuvered and we are being manipulated by unelected, insidious forces, toward objectives not necessarily in the people’s interest. Now that the so-called “pandemic”, declared by the mysterious self-appointed World Health Organization, and followed obediently by governments everywhere, has been decreed “finished”, we should devote a moment to introspection, considering who is running the show and for whose benefit, as governments gaily abdicated their vested responsibility to govern. Pandemic is over? I hope they told those killer viruses who destroyed the population of Europe and North America. What? Oh, just 1% mortality?…

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed a funded Risk Sharing Framework (RSF) agreement with HSBC Bank Armenia (HSBC Armenia) to facilitate Armenian firms’ access to finance. Under the agreement – signed today in Yerevan by Francis Malige, the EBRD’s Managing Director for Financial Institutions, and Irina Seylanyan, the HSBC Armenia’s Chief Executive Officer – the EBRD will co-finance individual loans provided by HSBC Armenia to eligible borrowers. The RSF is one of three core financing frameworks of the EBRD’s Small Business Initiative a programme dedicated to supporting and developing local private companies. The EBRD offers partner banks funded or unfunded risk participation…

Berlin (06/11 – 58) UN Special Rapporteur of Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, has once again called on the authorities of Tajikistan to release imprisoned Tajik journalists and bloggers. Mary Lawlor posted on her social media account, formerly Twitter, that during a meeting with Tajikistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Jonibek Hikmat, in New York on October 24, she reiterated her call for the Tajik authorities to release the convicted human rights defenders and journalists, including Daler Imomali, Abdullo Gurbati, and Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva. Last year, in Tajikistan, eight journalists and bloggers were sentenced to various prison terms, ranging from 7…

International expert circles continue to discuss the ongoing negotiation process between Yerevan and Baku and the possible use of force by the Azerbaijani side against Armenia. Against the backdrop of all this, a high-ranking American diplomat arrived in the region, the Voice of America reports. US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Joshua Huck arrived in Baku to meet the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, US Embassy in Azerbaijan informed on X (formerly Twitter), noting that bilateral relations and the prospect of achieving stable and dignified peace in the South Caucasus were discussed at the meeting. According to the Press Service…

London (07/11 – 71) For ten years now, the authorities of Tajikistan have been engaged in forced assimilation of the ethnic Pamiri people, giving away the heartlands to China for debts,” Orzu M. shared with RFI – Radio France Internationale is a French news and current affairs public radio station that broadcasts worldwide. RFI met with Orzu in Paris, sharing the fact that more and more Pamiris are leaving their native homes in Gorno-Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous (GBAO) Region of Tajikistan; they are driven into exile by the persecution of the authorities, who are displacing indigenous peoples. RFI: How did it…