BREAKING: The Artsakh Parliament has elected Samvel Shahramanyan as the President of Artsakh with a vote of 22 for, 1 against.

All parties in the Artsakh Parliament, except for 'United Motherland,' nominated Artsakh State Minister Samvel Shahramanyan for the position of President of the Artsakh Republic.

Due to Artsakh being under martial law and recent amendments made to the Artsakh constitution, the Artsakh Parliament was tasked with electing a new president following Arayik Harutyunyan's resignation on September 1, 2023.

Prior to Harutyunyan's resignation, he approved the appointment of Samvel Shahramanyan as State Minister. Previously Shahramanyan served as the Secretary of the Security Council.

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🔸Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili has claimed Georgia has practically fulfilled all of the EU’s 12 priorities necessary to obtain the block’s candidate status. "The main part of these recommendations has been substantially implemented, there are a few remaining recommendations that we are actively working on. One of them is de-oligarchization, we had consultations with the European Commission about it, I personally had a conversation with our colleagues, and we took into account their recommendations and did not adopt a law. Instead, we are working now and very soon, within two weeks, we will have an action plan that fully reflects the spirit of this recommendation," PM Garibashvili said in a press conference with EU's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. EU HRVP @JosepBorrellF, on the other hand, clearly stated Georgia has fulfilled only three EU priorities. “You have delivered 3 of them and other 9 remain to be done,” he said while standing next to the PM

🔸The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry called the presidential elections in Nagorno-Karabakh "a gross violation of the constitution, laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, norms and principles of international law."

🔸The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports the prevention of provocation by the Armenian army in the direction of the city of Fizuli

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🇮🇷🇹🇷🇦🇿 Media sources close to Turkish security circles claim that Turkish FM Hakan Fidan gave a "serious warning" to Tehran that if Iran intervenes in the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Turkish army will respond to it as soon as possible!

Brigadier Abbas Nilfroshan, Deputy Chief of Ops for the IRGC: The 19th of this month serves as the deadline for Iraq and the KRG to disarm Rojhilat Kurdish rebel groups and confine them to camps. Should the agreement not be implemented, we will take measures to defend ourselves.

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Iraqi PM: We and the KRG have managed to disarm Iranian Kurdish groups and deploy 3,000 guards along the Iraq-Iran border per our agreement with Iran. But we haven't yet managed to move all the fighters into a camp, we are making every effort to do so before the deadline.

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PUK leader Bafel Talabani is reportedly currently in Tehran and is scheduled to meet with Iranian officials to discuss KRG-Baghdad relations, the disarming of Iranian Kurdish rebels, and PUK's upcoming congress in December.

Bafel, whose party has historically maintained close ties with Iran, has also fostered strong relationships with pro-Iran Shia groups in Iraq over the last two years.

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🚨🇸🇦🇮🇳🇪🇺 ~ Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled the signing of a memorandum of understanding to establish an economic corridor connecting India with the Middle East and Europe.

🚨🇮🇳🇺🇸🇸🇦🇪🇺 ~ #G20 | Biden, MBS and Modi shake hands after the US, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE, France, Germany, Italy and the EU announced plans for a new India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor.

🚨🇮🇳🪬 ~ The venue which hosted G-20 leaders lit up after arrival of guests in Delhi, India.

🚨🇮🇳 ~ Foreign G-20 delegates in India were served with silver and gold plates for dinner.