Author: Steven Sahiounie

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Armenia is ready to hold high-level meetings with Azerbaijan, assuring that his country “has never participated in, and will not participate in, any conspiracies against Iran.”Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he is willing to sit down with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to exchange maps detailing the location of landmines in Agdam with Armenian detainees. During a meeting with representatives of the Armenian community in Lithuania, Pashinyan affirmed that “his country is ready to hold high-level meetings and summit-level meetings to bring all the maps involved in humanitarian mine action operations.” The Armenian Prime Minister…

The League of Arab States has announced its participation in monitoring the Iraqi elections after receiving an invitation from the Independent High Electoral Commission.After an invitation from the Independent High Electoral Commission, the League of Arab States announced its participation in monitoring the Iraqi elections. In a statement, the League announced that an observer mission arrived in Iraq on Sunday to participate in the assessment of various aspects of the electoral process, including the electoral campaigns of the candidates, the polling, and the counting of votes. The Iraqi Prime Minister’s Adviser for Elections Affairs, Abdul Hussein Al-Hindawi, announced that Iraq received requests…

The Palestinian Prisoners Club said prisoners initiated a gradual resistance program in protest of maximum Israeli punitive measures since the Sept. 6 Gilboa prison escape.The Palestinian Prisoners Club confirmed that prisoners agreed on a gradual Resistance program, which began last night and will last until the end of this week. Palestinian prisoners are protesting punitive measures imposed by the Israeli occupation since the Sept. 6 Gilboa prison escape, singling out prisoners with ties to Islamic Jihad with double arbitrary measures and punishment practices. The prisoner’s gradual resistance program includes defiance and rejection of “Israel’s” punitive measures and illegal laws. The Prisoner’s…

Bratislava, SANA- Syrian students studying in Slovakia have renewed their standing by the homeland in its war against terrorism and its tools, and they underlined determination to continue their educational attainment to actively contribute to the reconstruction process. “October Liberation War constituted a watershed in the history of the Arab nation and a turning point in modern history, as it restored the Arab citizen’s confidence in his ability to achieve victories,” the National Union of Syrian Students said in a statement on occasion of October Liberation War. The Syrian Arab Army’s victories over Takfiri terrorist organizations constitute an extension of…

Daraa, SANA- Operation of settling status of scores of gunmen, the wanted and military deserters and handing over their weapons to the Syrian Arab Army started on Sunday in Jasem city, Nimr village and al-Hara town in Daraa northern countryside based on the agreement proposed by the state. SANA reporter said Sunday that gunmen, the wanted and military deserters flocked to the settlement center in Jasem city to have their files settled and to hand over their weapons to the Syrian Army, in implementation of the agreement proposed by the State. SANA reporter said that the settlement center that set…

In a threatening statement on Beijing’s “destabilizing” military moves that was published on Sunday, the US State Department warned China against even diplomatically and economically pressuring Taiwan in its own interests. In the statement, United States spokesperson and former CIA intelligence officer Ned Price warned China that the US was “very concerned” by its “provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability.” “We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure and coercion against Taiwan,” Price wrote Claiming the US had “an abiding interest in peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” Price said it would “continue to…

On December 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus met near the city of Brest to sign the Belovezha Accords that led to the dissolution of the USSR. The Republic of Belarus was recognized as independent weeks later. Since that meeting, every American government, along with their counterparts in Europe and Russia, have spoken out in defence of Minsk’s independence and sovereignty. Indeed, until recently, the status of Belarus as an independent nation appeared to be a settled matter. Now, though, things are looking less clear. In December 1994, the new US President Bill Clinton co-signed the Budapest…

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh underlined that the Islamic Republic has and will always play a constructive role in the region as an anchor of peace and stability. “In my address before Normandy World Peace Forum and in my meetings with French counterparts, press & think tanks, I emphasized Iran’s commitment to dialogue & diplomacy as the only way forward,” Khatibzadeh tweeted while Referring to his visit to France. “As anchor of peace & stability in our region, Iran will always play constructive role,” he added. In relevant remarks on Saturday, Khatibzadeh who has traveled to Paris to…

PERTH – When the US first shared plans for nuclear-powered submarines with the UK in the 1950s, at a time when nuclear power stations were also being built in both nations, uranium-rich Australia had neither. The ANZUS treaty, forged with New Zealand and the US after World War II, included defense cooperation provisions, but never that level of top-secret exchange. Australia developed conventional submarines and never built nuclear generators because coal was cheap and abundant and coal-fired power stations were infinitely more simple. Yet the idea of developing nuclear power has never quite gone away in Australia. Australia already has…

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Sunday that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) applied double standards over military activities among UN member states, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The UNSC met behind closed doors on Friday upon requests from the United States, Britain and France over Pyongyang’s recent missile launches. The meeting lasted just over an hour and ended without a statement. Jo Chol Su, director of the DPRK Foreign Ministry’s Department of International Organizations, said the UNSC meeting means an “open ignorance of and wanton encroachment” on its sovereignty and “serious intolerable provocation.”…