Macron’s France on Gaullism vector
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.
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.
Following the ceasefire in 2020 that ended the Second Karabakh war between Azerbaijan on the one side and the de-facto Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic and Armenia on the other, military-political leadership in Armenia, inclusive of local institutes as well as diasporan initiatives, have pushed for more research to improve security policy, models of deterrence and doctrinal approaches to Armenian national strategic objectives.
A joint meeting between RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is scheduled to be held on April 5, 2024, in Brussels.
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.
On March 15-17 the presidential elections were held in the Russian Federation, according to which the incumbent head of state Vladimir Putin received 87,28% of the votes.
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.