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On November 9, 2024, the Executive Director of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), Aram Hambaryan, announced that 90% of the candidates supported by the Armenian organization received mandates in the US House of Representatives.

On 11.11.2024, the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 started in the capital of Azerbaijan. Baku, together with relevant UN structures, has thoroughly prepared for this event, trying to ensure that the scale and significance of COP29 will not be inferior to the memorable Paris Environmental Conference of 2015.

At the end of January 2023, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) put forward a project on creation of a new trade route in the Middle East called the “Development Road”, which envisages to construction of a railway and a multi-lane highway from the Persian Gulf through Iraq to Turkey, to the Mediterranean port of Mersin.

Judging by the Azerbaijani leadership's behavior, this country is trying to prolong the negotiation process and postpone the signing of a peace treaty with Armenia for an indefinite period.

On October 14, 2024, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian received an Azerbaijani delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev in Tehran.

On October 2, 2024, the Israeli government declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres persona non grata. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz officially notified that Guterres was banned from entering the Jewish state.

The importance of the Middle Corridor (also known as the Central Corridor or the “Trans-Caspian Transport Route”) has increased sharply in 2022-2024 against the background of the reform of the Eurasian land and sea routes due to the war in Ukraine and the blockade of the Suez Canal.