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Regional * On Sunday, Veronika Zonabend, the wife of the former Nagorno-Karabakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, who is imprisoned in Azerbaijan, stated that she has yet to receive a reply on whether she will be able to meet her husband in Baku. This came amidst reports that the Armenian Foreign Ministry had been tasked with organising a meeting between Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan and their spouses. Hours later, the ministry told RFE/RL that it had verbally passed a proposal to her a

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Regional * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have all released statements commemorating last year’s Washington summit. All three have acknowledged the milestones reached in the peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan since, but noted there were still unresolved issues, including the ratification of the treaty, the demarcation of borders, and the release of prisoners, among others. * On the first anniversary of

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Regional * The Azerbaijani media outlet Report wrote that a group of Azerbaijani lorries have been held by Georgian border authorities for several days at the Sarpi and Red Bridge border crossings, as well as at the customs clearance centre in Tbilisi. According to the drivers, they have received no official explanation for the delay. Georgia’s Revenue Service stated that an investigation into the matter is underway. * Tomorrow, eight freight wagons of wheat and 10 freight wagons of coal will

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Armenia * The old terminal at Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport is at risk of demolition. The potential renovation is part of a $400 million plan to expand and modernise the airport’s current building․ According to the draft initiative published on Armenia’s legal portal, E-draft.am, the government is suggesting removing the historical building from the state register of immovable historical and cultural monuments․ Although the government denies discussing the demolition, the published