International transport corridors play a decisive role in cooperation and development of the included states. Such corridors are development axes for certain geoeconomic spaces.
Organizers of the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov will not manage to undermine the process of normalizing Russian-Turkish relations, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a commentary published in the Russian MFA’s official website.
Negotiations lasting for already a few months around this bloc are held without discordances, as the parties cover issues of the bloc not causing issues to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). According to our source, the most wrinkled issues of this bloc have been left to the last few stages, which the parties plan to end in March. According to our interlocutor. The EU continues providing Armenia the possibility of choice in negotiations.
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court published one of the decisions on December 19, in which judges said the plaintiff had failed to provide sufficient evidence that his fundamental rights had been violated and that no such violation was obvious, reported the Associated Press.
Turkish media reported the gunman had been killed. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made the announcement that Karlov had been killed in a live televised statement.
Mr Karlov was several minutes into a speech at the embassy-sponsored exhibition when a man wearing a suit and tie shouted “Allahu akbar” and fired at least eight shots, according to an AP photographer in the audience.
“We are one of the few oldest nations having a statehood. Yerevan is 50 years older than Rome. An area very close to Yerevan, Shengavit, is 6000 years old – a civilization that is 1000 years older than Egypt pyramids.”
The European Union extended economic sanctions against Russia for another six months, TASS reports. The press service of the European Council informed about this.
“Unfortunately, during the past two decades pursuit of the policy, which seeks to exclude Armenia from the regional energy market, has prevented this valuable capacity to be properly taken advantage of it. Therefore, any participation of Armenia in energy plans is inherently valuable.”
“Third crucial interest is the following—Russia establishes joint troops to control a part of Armenia’s sovereign army, as it convinced by the April war that Armenian army is a sovereign factor. This statement by Pushkov is an edifice.”