Ilham Aliyev

Azerbaijan is suspending work in its embassy in Iran, days after a gunman stormed the embassy and killed a security guard, AFP reported.

Iran said Friday's attack was motivated by personal reasons, but Baku described it as an act of terrorism.

According to reports, the security chief was killed, and his two colleagues were wounded, reports TASS.
A guard is killed and two injured by a man with an assault rifle, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry says.
"The attacker broke through the guard post, killing the head of security with a Kalashnikov assault rifle," it said.

Azerbaijan has confirmed the supply of 12 billion cubic meters of gas to the EU in 2023, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.

The country will export a total of 24 billion cubic meters of gas in 2023, half of which will go to Europe, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on state television.

So far, 8.1 billion cubic meters have been delivered annually.

Russia's Vladimir Putin is now more open to possible peace talks to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said noting that he would seek grounds for such an initiative by the phone conversations planned with the leaders of the two warring sides.

The car in which Binali Yıldırım, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) vice chair, his bodyguard and the party deputy Şamil Ayrım were in an accident in Azerbaijan on late Oct. 20.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Oct. 20 that there was an opportunity to repair ties with Armenia, linking it with the normalization underway between Yerevan and Ankara's ally Azerbaijan.

Among other things, he invited the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikola Pashinyan to hold a meeting in Russia.
Putin said that Russia has always sincerely sought to resolve every conflict, including Nagorno-Karabakh.
He invited all the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to come to St. Petersburg before 2023.

"Unless something happens with the war, I expect that the peak of inflation has passed, thanks to fuel and electricity prices, I don't expect them to go up". This was stated by the caretaker Minister of Economy and Industry Nikola Stoyanov on BNT.

Armenia's "violation" of the agreement, reached after 44 days of conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, is unacceptable for Türkiye, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 14.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has extended his congratulations to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on his country's control of Lachin and other cities in a phone conversation.

According to a statement by the Presidential Communications Directorate, Erdoğan spoke on the phone with Aliyev over the weekend to address the bilateral relations and recent regional developments.