Armenia and Azerbaijan contest the sequence of events that led to EU observers ducking for cover ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the persecution of ethnic Armenians in the Lachin corridor.
Amid accusations of an Azeri-based genocide, the Commission’s top foreign policy mandarin for the region, Lawrence Meredith, provoked a backlash by promoting Azerbaijani tourism.
Turkish authorities launched an investigation into Disney after the network pulled a dramatisation of the life of Kemal Atatürk following lobbying by the Armenian diaspora.
The EU has been castigated for ignoring the plight of ethnic Armenians in captured territories, with Council President Charles Michel saying both sides made progress over issues of territorial integrity and prisoner exchange.
Negotiations in this region are at an impasse, with the Armenian enclave requesting humanitarian assistance and Azerbaijan demanding Armenian integration.
Seemingly weeks away from an historic peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Moscow has derailed the process—strengthening its hand—without a shot being fired.
