Orientalist: In 2026, Baku made special efforts to achieve greater diplomatic effect on the issue of victory over Artsakh

ArmInfo. In 2026, Baku made a special effort to achieve greater diplomatic effect on the issue of gaining laurels from the victory over Artsakh in the war, according to orientalist Sergei Melkonyan.

The expert compiled a list of states and organizations that officially congratulated Azerbaijan on the occasion of the victory in the Second Artsakh War.

According to him, in 2026, Baku was officially congratulated by: Turkey (the president, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the nationalist party MHP, and the "New Party"); Pakistan (the president and prime minister); Saudi Arabia (the king and crown prince); Kyrgyzstan (the president); Uzbekistan (the president); Kazakhstan (the president); Syria (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Ukraine (the ambassador to Azerbaijan); Israel (the embassy in Azerbaijan), and occupied "northern Cyprus" (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

Melkonyan noted that the following organizations congratulated him: the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Organization of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic States, the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation, the Turkic Investment Fund, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, and the International Center for the Rapprochement of Cultures under the auspices of UNESCO.

According to the expert, it appears that Azerbaijan continues to exploit Turkic and Islamic multilateral platforms, a network of Turkish allies, and personal connections in international organizations to advance its agenda.

"It is noteworthy that in 2025, this list was shorter and did not include Syria, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or the Turkic Investment Fund. This means that Baku made a special effort in 2026 to achieve a greater diplomatic effect. But even more interesting is who did not congratulate Azerbaijan." "None of our neighbors sent congratulations (Russia, Iran, Georgia). This list also does not include the great powers that are permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, China, France, and the United Kingdom), nor does the EU," he concluded.

As a reminder, on the night of September 27, 2020, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, in tandem with Turkey, committed military aggression against Artsakh. During the bloody fighting that lasted 44 days, on the night of November 9-10, 2020, a statement was signed, with Russia's mediation, on the cessation of hostilities and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers to Artsakh. As a result of the 2020 aggression, Shushi and several districts of Artsakh were lost. Several thousand soldiers died, more than 10 thousand sons of the Armenian people became disabled, thousands of Artsakh residents lost their homes.