Germany congratulates Armenia and Azerbaijan on taking courageous steps and building confidence, Steffen Hebestreit, German Government Spokesperson, said, Trend reports.

„We stand ready to support further normalization process based on mutual recognition of sovereignty, inviolability of borders, and territorial integrity“, he wrote on his page on X.

The State Building and Law Commission of the Armenian Parliament rejected a bill criminalizing Armenia's renouncement from Azerbaijan's Karabakh, Trend reports via the Armenian media.

The bill put forward by the opposition provided for amendments to the Criminal Code in connection with the refusal to recognize “Karabakh’s right to self-determination”.

Armenia uses the Batumi-Novorosiysk sea route to bring cars and medical equipment produced by Western companies to the Russian Federation.

Armenia intensively uses the sea route between the ports of Batumi (Georgia) and Novorossiysk (Russia) to re-export to the Russian Federation goods subject to sanctions. As a result, 600 twenty-foot containers are transported on the Batumi-Novorosiysk sea route every week. All these shipments are carried out by "Armenian Shipping Company".

Three years after the last war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Armenian-majority separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh has suffered new Azeri strikes. Baku says its intention was to target military infrastructure as part of an “anti-terrorist operation” and to spare civilians, but observers on the ground have reported a heavy human toll: At least 32 civilian deaths in the space of 24 hours. This Wednesday, the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh accepted a ceasefire with Azerbaijan, after mediation by Russian peacekeeping forces.

Dear Compatriots, Distinguished Members of Parliament and Members of the Government,

In accordance with Article 59 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, I declare the second session of the Parliament of the VIII convocation open.

Dear Members of Parliament,

Congratulations to all of you on the opening of this next session, and I wish you success in your responsible endeavors!

Kazakhstan considers it necessary to open direct flights with Albania, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said during a meeting with President of Albania Bajram Begaj, Trend reports.

Some 245,000 tons of non-ferrous metal products were transshipped through Baku Port from January through July 2023, which is 85 percent higher year-on-year, Trend reports.

According to the port's data, the bulk of metal products (aluminum, zinc, cathode copper) was received by the Port from Kazakhstan.

The total volume of transported non-ferrous metal products for the same period last year exceeded 132,000 tons.

Greece has significantly increased its gas imports from Azerbaijan, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, told Trend.

June saw a notable surge in imports, with 174.6 million cubic meters received, compared to 163 million cubic meters in May, marking a 7.1 percent month-on-month increase.

Greece imported a total of 1.020 billion cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan between January and June 2023.

Protesters have hit the streets across government-held areas of Syria for over a week, calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step down from office, decrying fuel price hikes as well as economic mismanagement and corruption. But protesters are also calling for the release of the thousands of people who were forcibly disappeared since 2011.

Within the framework of cooperation between SOCAR and "DeGolyer and MacNaughton", work on counting 27 fields according to SPE-PRMS classification in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea has started, Trend reports.

According to the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), a meeting was held between SOCAR President Rovshan Najaf and Chairman and CEO of DeGolyer and MacNaughton John W. Wallace.