Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Regional * Earlier in March, former Nagorno-Karabakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan ‘attempted to deliver a public address’ to Azerbaijan’s Human Rights Defender Sabina Aliyeva during a phone call with his family, but the call was ‘forcibly’ cut off, relatives say. They add he had spent 10 days unsuccessfully trying to contact her. Vardanyan is serving a 20-year sentence in Azerbaijan on war crimes charges, which he denies. Armenia * The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas has reaffirmed that th

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