AnewZ Morning Brief - 16 September, 2025
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European Union member states has extended EU monitoring mission along Armenia’s international border with Azerbaijan for next two years despite official Baku’s demand for its immediate withdrawal.
The proposal to extend the mission was recently made by the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas and approved on Wednesday, according to Armenian press.
RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak reported that the Brussels-based ambassadors of the 27 EU nations, who endorsed Kallas’s proposal, also decided to keep the mission’s mandate and size unchanged.
According to the mission's representatives in Armenia, this decision is expected to receive formal approval from the EU member states' foreign ministers in the near future.
Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan recently stated that Armenia will need the EU Mission in his country as long as delimitation of the border with Azerbaijan is going on.
At the same time, Moscow accused the EU monitors of spying under the auspices of the observation mission and destabilizing the situation in the region.
The EU observer mission in Armenia is spying on Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan, further heightening tensions in the region, stated Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova adding “this has been factually confirmed."
Baku also insists on withdrawal of EU observers and called the deployment of monitors from third countries as “a factor of concern."
"The mission was supposed to be short-term, but now it has turned into a permanent one, with extended mandate and composition. We see no need in involvement of any third party in the delimitation process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which is carried out in a peaceful and mutually agreed condition. We don’t consider EU mission as contributor to the peace consolidation in the region, it is factor of concern” – said Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President Ilham Aliyev.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
A Polish Air Force pilot was killed on Thursday when an F-16 fighter jet crashed during a training flight ahead of the 2025 Radom International Air Show.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
On 15 September, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Salim bin Mohammed AlMalik, Director-General of ICESCO, in Shusha.
Iran has accused a U.S. delegation in Vienna of threatening the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of cutting off financial support if a draft resolution tabled by Tehran is passed. This resolution condemns the military attacks on nuclear sites in June.
On September 14, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited the Hadrut settlement in the Khojavend district. The head of state was briefed on the developments in the settlement.
On September 14, 2025, Karen Albertovich Avanesyan, an Armenian-born resident of Khankendi, born in 1967, went from his residence to a forest area near the city, where he had previously hidden an AK-47 assault rifle, four magazines filled with ammunition, and five hand grenades.
The inaugural Assembly of the Turkic World Insurance Union has officially begun today in Shusha, Azerbaijan.
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