India's Growing Engagement In Caucasus Region And How It Signals Change Of Equations With Azerbaijan, Turkey
2 years, 5 months ago

India's Growing Engagement In Caucasus Region And How It Signals Change Of Equations With Azerbaijan, Turkey

ABP News  

India-Armenia defence partnership has set things straight in the Caucasus region. Looking Ahead: India@2047 India To Send Pinaka Rocket Launchers To Armenia Why India has become so important in the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea — mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia etc — is evident from the changed equations of the region. As Russia is involved in a war with Ukraine, India has emerged as a stepping stone to cross the expansionist and extremist ridge of a triangle named Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/WqvsEA0AU7 — Ararat Mirzoyan August 31, 2022 Why Azerbaijan And Turkey Are Rattled Azerbaijan appears to be greatly disturbed by India's initiative in the region. The Azeri media is calling India's defence equipment “scrap”, even as discussing India's exceptional growth story in the defence sector, including 334 percent export growth within five years as India has exported defence equipment to over 75 countries.

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Exploring prospects for India-Azerbaijan ties through connectivity projects
9 months ago

Exploring prospects for India-Azerbaijan ties through connectivity projects

Hindustan Times  

Azerbaijan has become an attractive investment destination, connecting Europe, Central Asia, Russia, and the Indian subcontinent via the International North-South Transport Corridor and the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, India established ties with the newly independent countries in the Caucasus region through diplomatic efforts. However, in recent decades, China's influence in Eurasia and hostility …

Azerbaijan's capture of Nagorno-Karabakh opens up challenges for India in the South Caucasus
1 year, 5 months ago

Azerbaijan's capture of Nagorno-Karabakh opens up challenges for India in the South Caucasus

Firstpost  

As India refigures its foreign policy to a region now changed by Armenia’s defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh, it almost certainly will have to seek out other, more stable avenues for its infrastructure ties given the potential of the INSTC project Wile the latest round of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the long-disputed Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan, seems to have been over within …

The history and latest developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia | Explained
1 year, 5 months ago

The history and latest developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: On September 20, Azerbaijan claimed full control over the contentious Nagorno-Karabakh region after local forces, mostly Armenians, agreed to be disarmed and disbanded. Azerbaijan and Armenia became part of the Soviet Republic soon after, and Nagorno-Karabakh was made an autonomous Oblast in Azerbaijan’s territory, while its population was majorly Armenian. As the Soviet Union disintegrated in …

Armenia grapples with multiple challenges after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh
1 year, 5 months ago

Armenia grapples with multiple challenges after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh

Associated Press  

Tens of thousands of now-homeless people have streamed into Armenia from the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled by its emboldened adversary, Azerbaijan. Pashinyan has accused the peacekeepers of failing to prevent the recent hostilities by Azerbaijan, which also could make new territorial threats against Armenia, Russia has been distracted by its war in Ukraine, which has eroded its influence in …

Mint Explainer: Why India is affected by Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh takeover
1 year, 5 months ago

Mint Explainer: Why India is affected by Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh takeover

Live Mint  

After a short, sharp military campaign, Azerbaijan has claimed victory over separatists in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Due to Azerbaijan's close ties with Pakistan, India has been strategically backing Aremnia via sales of military equipment. Nagorno-Karabakh, and some swathes of territory around it, had been controlled by Armenian separatists since Armenia won a war with Azerbaijan in the 1990s. Ultimately, …

War in Caucasus: On Azerbaijan’s recapture of Nagorno-Karabakh
1 year, 5 months ago

War in Caucasus: On Azerbaijan’s recapture of Nagorno-Karabakh

The Hindu  

Azerbaijan’s brisk military recapture of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave within its borders, shows the changing power dynamics in the Caucasus, where American, Russian and Turkish interests collide. The roots of the conflict go back to the final days of the Soviet Union when the enclave’s majority Armenian-Christian population held a referendum to break away from the Shia majority Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan …

War in Ukraine: How Russia vs West is Bad News for India’s Foreign Policy
3 years, 1 month ago

War in Ukraine: How Russia vs West is Bad News for India’s Foreign Policy

News 18  

Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, the head of the German navy, had to step down over his ‘ill-considered’ comments on Russian President Putin at a New Delhi-based think tank recently. It published draft US-Russia and NATO-Russia security treaties on December 17, 2021 and asked for security guarantees from the US-led West that includes rollback of NATO military deployment in Central and …

Crisis in Caucasus: The Hindu Editorial on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh
4 years, 5 months ago

Crisis in Caucasus: The Hindu Editorial on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh

The Hindu  

The ongoing fighting between Armenian rebels and the Azerbaijani Army in Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-declared republic within Azerbaijan, risks becoming a wider regional conflict. Though Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a Russia-mediated ceasefire last week after days of fighting, the truce crumbled immediately amid a blame game. In 1988, when the Soviet power was receding, the regional assembly in Nagorno-Karabakh voted …

Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict: What’s behind new fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh region?
4 years, 5 months ago

Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict: What’s behind new fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh region?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh …

Editorial: In the South Caucasus, the threat of war
4 years, 5 months ago

Editorial: In the South Caucasus, the threat of war

LA Times  

An elderly man stands in front of a destroyed house after shelling in the Nagorno-Karabakh region’s main city of Stepanakert on Wednesday, during fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region. The conflict threatens to draw in the dominant powers in the region — especially Russia and Turkey, but also possibly Iran. Lawmakers in Nagorno-Karabakh called for joining Armenia …

Why you should care about conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan
4 years, 5 months ago

Why you should care about conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Al Jazeera  

Clashes erupt periodically in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the latest crisis has raised fears of an all-out war. “It’s a region of international importance, which has actually grown more internationally important in the last 25 years because of oil and gas pipelines through it,” Thomas de Waal, senior fellow with Carnegie Europe specialising in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region, …

Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes: How the world reacted
4 years, 5 months ago

Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes: How the world reacted

Al Jazeera  

Iran, Turkey, Russia, France and others react to the major flare-up in violence over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The US State Department said it contacted the two countries “to urge both sides to cease hostilities immediately, to use the existing direct communication links between them to avoid further escalation, and to avoid unhelpful rhetoric and actions.” Armenia and Azerbaijan accused …

Tensions reignite in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
10 years ago

Tensions reignite in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Al Jazeera  

An escalation in attacks on civilians in the South Caucasus region is stoking fears of a return to all-out war. “You are asking very painful questions,” said Ashot Harutiunyan, a war veteran and director of the history museum in the town of Shushi in Nagorno-Karabakh, when asked about the region’s bloody past. As early as 2010, Lieutenant General Movses Hakobian, …

New security configuration in the Caucasus
15 years, 5 months ago

New security configuration in the Caucasus

The Hindu  

The milestone accords Turkey and Armenia sealed this month to normalise their relations after a century of hostility have dramatically changed the geopolitical configuration in the Caucasus. For U.S. President Barack Obama, the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement offers a way out of a tight spot he put himself in during the presidential campaign when he promised support to a proposed Congress resolution …

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