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Executive Summary: Seoul’s inaugural Korea–Central Asia Summit moved relations from bilateral channels to a regular regional framework, with the Seoul Declaration setting four cooperation priorities for the next 30 years. Driven by its need for critical minerals, Seoul used this framework to secure 116 business memoranda, tailored deals with each Central Asian state, and new…
Executive Summary: Azerbaijan and Türkiye signed defense contracts worth more than $500 million in Baku on September 30. The contracts cover trainer aircraft, loitering munitions, a coastal defense system, and radars, along with an agreement to build a Turkish–Azerbaijani production facility in Nakhchivan. The Czechoslovak Group announced a joint venture valued at 1.8 billion euros…
“We must strengthen the United Nations (UN) and the international system to ensure comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable global security. These efforts should be complemented through regional platforms such as the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and contribute to addressing challenges that require closer cooperation.” UN Permanent Representative Board Chairman Farid…
On October 14, Leading Advisor of the AIR Center Sultan Zahidov participated in a conference held in Paris by IRIS (French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs) in partnership with the Embassy of Azerbaijan in France. In his remarks, he addressed the changing geopolitical landscape in the South Caucasus, Azerbaijan’s growing regional role, its multivector…
Editor’s note: Farid Shafiyev is the chairman of the Baku-based Center of Analysis of International Relations and Multiculturalism. The article reflects the author’s personal views and does not necessarily represent the position of News.Az. Introduction The South Caucasus has always been a crossroads where empires, regional powers and outside interests compete. In a world now…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev addressed the 8th Congress of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) in Baku on Friday, the first party congress convened since Azerbaijan fully restored its territorial integrity and sovereignty. His speech reviewed three decades of statehood, but its lasting importance lies elsewhere. The President set out, in systematic terms, the principles that…
In Europe, a lot of work has been done over the years in preparation for an event that would trigger NATO’s Article 5. But the real challenge is the step beneath NATO’s Article 5. Events such as sabotage, cyberattacks, drones, and even infrastructure attacks can be costly in terms of strategy, yet intentionally ambiguous to…
President Ilham Aliyev’s (pictured) address to the Congress of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) was more than a party speech. It set out, in programmatic form, how Azerbaijan intends to protect its territorial integrity and sovereignty, that it won on the battlefield in 2020-2023. Its message can be summed up in three words – peace…
In recent years, Central Asia has moved from the periphery of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy to become one of its principal geopolitical priorities. This shift cannot be explained solely by the translation of the historical, ethnic, religious, and cultural affinities between Azerbaijan and the states of the region into political relations. The new phase rests on…
Until recently, the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) could best be understood in terms of identity, language, culture, and economic collaboration. This is changing. On September 17, Baku played host to the Fifth Meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the OTS countries. In his message to the meeting, the president of Azerbaijan,…
