0623 GMT January 19, 2021
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Iran and Azerbaijan have inked a key document to expand bilateral economic cooperation as Baku welcomes Iran’s increased investment and technical assistance to rebuild regions around Nagorno-Karabakh that were liberated following a deadly conflict with ethnic Armenian forces late last year.
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The establishment of the Iranian Trade House in Azerbaijan will give an impetus to activities of the Iran-Azerbaijan Joint Chamber of Commerce, said Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Azerbaijan Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said.
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The northwestern Iranian province of East Azarbaijan is ready for the promotion of economic cooperation with Nakhichevan.
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Tehran and Baku are due to hold a meeting of the two countries' joint economic commission in mid-January, said Iranian President's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi on Thursday.
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Four Azerbaijani servicemen have been killed in recent weeks in clashes in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday, in the first report of casualties since a Russian-brokered cease-fire accord.
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‘Erdogan not informed he was undermining Azerbaijan’s sovereignty’
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed Tehran’s readiness to contribute to strengthening a cease-fire recently reached between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov will make an official visit to Tehran on Wednesday.
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International condemnation continued to pour in over the recent assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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Azerbaijan said on Tuesday its forces had entered the Lachin district, the last of three handed back by Armenia as part of a deal that ended weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Trade between Iran and Azerbaijan through the Bileh-Savar border crossing has risen eight percent during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 20-November 20), said the head of Iran-Azerbaijan Joint Chamber of Commerce.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has invited his counterpart from Azerbaijan to visit Tehran in a near future.
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called Saturday for greater military cooperation with Russia, a day after Azerbaijani troops began moving into territory in Nagorno-Karabakh previously held by Armenian separatist forces.
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National Desk
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Units of the Azerbaijani Army have entered the Aghdam region, a territory ceded by Armenian forces in a cease-fire agreement that ended six weeks of heavy fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Friday.
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