Since the end of 2023, French policy towards the Ukrainian conflict has been significantly intensified. At the same time, Paris’s diplomacy on the South Caucasus regional track was revitalized.
On 12.04.2024 it became known that Serbia officially refused to buy Russian MiG29 fighters for its army in favor of French Rafale produced by Dassault Aviation.
On the evening of 04.04.2024, unidentified persons carried out terrorist attacks on police officers in Chabahar and Rask cities in the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
On 30.03.2024 The Wall Street Journal has published an article about a potential successor to Turkish President Erdogan in the next presidential elections. According to the newspaper, it could be the Turkish leader’s son-in-law Selçuk Bayraktar.
At the beginning of 2024 the information about the interest of a Georgian bank of Georgia Group PLC in purchasing of Ameriabank – one of the largest Armenian banks –began to appear.
On March 10, 2024, it became known that Turkey is going to buy large volumes of gas from Turkmenistan. Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar said that Ankara was considering three options for importing Turkmen gas.
Following the visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to the United States for negotiations within the framework of the “Bilateral Strategic Mechanism”, international media are already publishing materials with references to particular institutions and politicians of both countries.
On 10.03.2024 British Defense Minister James Heappey stated that his country is ready to support Armenia in its struggle against Russia.
On 08.03.2024 speaking at the conference “Embracing Diversity: Tackling Islamophobia in 2024” in Baku, Ilham Aliyev leveled accusations against France.
