On December 29, Azerbaijani President Aliyev said that the cause of the Aktau crash was that the plane was "damaged by an attack from the ground." Aliyev said that the final investigation results need to analyze the black boxes, but the current preliminary findings are based on facts and sufficient evidence. (CCTV News)
Azerbaijani sources say Russia and Ukraine have failed to reach an agreement on an Azerbaijani-brokered deal for Russian gas deliveries to Europe.
On August 20, the reporter learned that on the 20th local time, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan said that the country has submitted an official application to join the BRICS cooperation mechanism.