ArmInfo. Passions around the Hayaqve initiative continue to heat up, Coordinator Avetik Chalabyan wrote in a Facebook post.

ArmInfo.The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) held a landmark hearing spotlighting  Azerbaijan's escalating aggression against the indigenous Armenian Christians of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), calling for sanctions against the Azerbaijani government in the face of a second Armenian Genocide taking place in the region, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

ArmInfo. Russian political expert Sergey Markedonov has analyzed the intricacies of alliance  between Moscow and Yerevan, as well as other actors. 

ArmInfo. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani responded to the call of the  Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry to its citizens to refrain from traveling to Iran.  An Iranian diplomat in his microblog on Twitter noted that "the people of Azerbaijan should be frightened by the Israeli regime, and not by civilized Islamic Iran." Kanaani stressed that "Iran continues to pursue a visa-free policy and opens its arms to Azerbaijani brothers and sisters."

ArmInfo. Armenia has improved its positions in the Global Startup Ecosystem Index. This was  reported by the press service of the Ministry of High-Tech Industry of Armenia.  In particular, according to the source, this year Armenia ranked 57th among 100 countries instead of 60th a year earlier, overtaking Georgia and becoming a leader in the region.

ArmInfo.Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev knows "seven songs and all of them about Armenia. It is  in this way that a well-known Russian proverb can be rephrased, against the background of today's attacks made by Aliyev against Armenia regarding the purchase of weapons.

ArmInfo.The results of the meeting in Brussels between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev, with the participation of the  President of the European Council, Charles Michel, were expected, as  they were a continuation of the results of the Prague meeting on 

ArmInfo.At the 77th session of the U.N. General Assembly Armenia voted for a resolution on  cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe, which mentions the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine. 

ArmInfo. Armenia's President Nikol Pashinyan has addressed a congratulatory message to his Israeli  counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Israel's independence. 

ArmInfo.Today, on April 20, 2023, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Israeli delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel Eli Cohen. The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov.

ArmInfo.The developments in Armenia and Azerbaijan, where the processes involving  Nagorno-Karabakh appear to be nearing completion - and far from being in favor of Armenia much less so in favor the Armenian population of the region [Nagorno-Karabakh]. Rather, the developments are certainly  in favor of Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey, Russia-based expert Yevgeny Satanovsky said. 

ArmInfo.  Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has strongly warned against the presence of  extra-regional forces in the West Asia region, demanding their immediate withdrawal given their escalatory moves, IRNA reports.

ArmInfo.Iranian-Azerbaijani relations have been complicated for 30 years, and they have developed along a sinusoidal pattern.

ArmInfo.Some 210 Iranian parliament lawmakers in a statement have condemned the opening of the embassy of Azerbaijan in the occupied Palestinian territories as well  as the appointment of the Azerbaijani envoy in the region while  urging the Iranian foreign ministry to take action in this regard,  IRNA reports.

ArmInfo.Turkey's ambassador to Israel has protested the naming of a square for the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Haifa, which last month became the first Israeli  city to acknowledge the tragedy in this way, The Times of Israel  reports.

ArmInfo.Stratfor, an American strategic intelligence publishing company, has published an article titled " Reassessing the Risk of an Escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh". 

ArmInfo.Sergey Markedonov, the  leading researcher at the Euro-Atlantic Security Center of the MGIMO  Institute for International Studies, analyzed the policies of the  Eurasian Triangle countries - Azerbaijan-Israel-Iran.

ArmInfo. In the city of Petah Tikva in the center of Israel, a park has been named after the great man and singer Charles Aznavour. Political scientist Alexander  Tsinker announces.

ArmInfo. EU is close to brokering a comprehensive peace agreement, but still faces several sticking points. This is stated in the Report of the Dutch Institute of International Relations Clingendael on the EU mission in the South Caucasus for March.

ArmInfo. According to Americanist Suren Sargsyan, rather interesting processes are developing round Iran.