Azerbaijan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) has addressed a letter to the Secretary-General of the organization regarding the illegal arrest of Azerbaijani civilians Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev by Armenia.

Armenia demonstrates counter-productive and destructive policy with regard to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement, Azerbaijani presidential aide, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev said in an interview with EURACTIV on January 21.

The Coordination Council of the Netherlands-Belgium Azerbaijanis has prevented a provocation by Armenians during a tourism exhibition in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Presidential aide, Head of Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev has said that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries (France, the U.S. Russia) that are negotiating the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabak conflict must exert political and diplomatic pressure on Armenia.

The United States, as a co-chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group, remains strongly committed to helping the sides achieve a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a representative of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan told Trend.

The letter addressed by Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations to the Secretary-General of the organization regarding the illegal arrest of Azerbaijani civilians Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev by Armenia has been circulated as a document of the UN General Assembly and Security Council, Trend reports.

Hikmet Hajiyev, the head of the Department for Foreign Policy Affairs of Azerbaijan’s Presidential Administration, has described as absurd Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashniyan’s condescending comments about martyrs of Black January massacre that saw the Soviet troops kill over a hundred Azerbaijani civilians.

Some 645 families consisting of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Azerbaijan’s occupied Lachin region will receive apartments in Takhtakorpu village of Aghjabadi region, Azerbaijani State Committee for Refugees and IDPs reported on its website on January 16.

Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Colonel General Zakir Hasanov met the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk on Jan. 17, Trend reports with reference to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Ahmadov has said the non-use of resources of the Azerbaijani territories under Armenian occupation impedes the overall development of Azerbaijan's economy. He also said that the expulsion of around one million Azerbaijanis from their homes due to the occupation presents a social burden to the country.

Head of the Department for Foreign Policy Affairs of Azerbaijan’s Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev has said Azerbaijan welcomes the fact that the EU consistently supports Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, inviolability of borders and sovereignty.

Head of the Department for Foreign Policy Affairs of Azerbaijan’s Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev has said that Mikhail Gorbachev must be stripped of his Nobel Prize Peace Prize over sending troops to Baku in January 1990 to crush the making of Azerbaijan’s independence.

The meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers is scheduled for late January, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told reporters in Baku.

The visit of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to the region is scheduled for the first quarter of the year, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told reporters in Baku, Trend reports on Jan. 17.

The adoption of the resolution entitled "Annual report on the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy" by the European Parliament, which supports Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and obliges European officials to adhere to the document in the EU foreign policy, is indeed Azerbaijan’s important diplomatic victory, Director of Russia's Institute of Contemporary Development, political analyst Dmitry Solonnikov told Trend.

The Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, in accordance with its mandate, plans to conduct the next ceasefire monitoring exercise on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in Azerbaijan's Aghdam district on Jan. 16, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division Sarah Leah Whitson supports construction of illegal settlements in the territory of Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region occupied by Armenia, reads an article posted in the Wall Street Journal, Trend reports Jan. 15.

The official website of the EU’s research and innovation program, EU Horizon 2020, has removed the distorted map of Azerbaijan after Baku’s interference, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Leyla Abdullayeva has told local media.

Ankara and Baku will jointly fight against illegal visits and illegal economic activity in the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia, a diplomatic source in Turkey told Trend.

Azerbaijan’s territories occupied by Armenia were indicated as a separate international entity called "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" in the "Country Profiles" section on the official website of the EU Horizon 2020 Program, which is a rude and insidious provocative approach with respect to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, Trend reports referring to spokesperson for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs has removed from its personas non grata list the name of Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier who had illegally visited Azerbaijan’s Armenian-occupied territories, the ministry said in its official website on January 9.

Albanian chairmanship in OSCE will continue to reinforce OSCE’s conflict resolution engagement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Edi Rama, Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office 2020, Trend reports citing OSCE’s website.

A delegation led by Chairman of Azerbaijan’s Center for Analysis of International Relations Farid Shafiyev held meetings in the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, the Beijing International Studies University and the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, Trend reports referring to the Center Jan. 9.

Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) once again visited Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev, Azerbaijani hostages captured by Armenian armed forces on occupied territories of Azerbaijan, in December 2019, Head of the Public Relations Department of ICRC Azerbaijan Office Ilaha Huseynova told Trend.

The Azerbaijani State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing People disclosed statistical data as of January 1, 2020, related to hostages and those missing and taken prisoners as a result of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, including those released, Trend reports on Jan. 8 referring to the State Commission.