NATO is interested in the resolution of conflicts in the South Caucasus region, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons said at the discussions held with the Azerbaijani, Georgian and Armenian public members at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

The goal of the Bridge to Future Success programme is to improve and strengthen capacity of selected secondary and higher education institutions to develop cultural and educational relations between the UK and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR).

Some Baku residents probably did a double-take when the news broke recently: two members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun, a nationalist Armenian party fervently opposed to Azerbaijan’s claims to Nagorno-Karabakh, had arrived in the Azerbaijani capital on a surprise visit.

News.Az interviews Irina Ghaplanyan, a graduate student of politics and international studies at the University of Cambridge. How would you comment on the recent cultural mission of Azerbaijani and Armenian diplomats, Polad Bulbuloglu and Armen Smbatyan, to Baku and Yerevan?...

"Given the cultural and religious commonalities between the two neighboring states, ties between Tehran and Baku will further develop," the minister added. Holding Azerbaijan Cultural Week in Iran is a significant step to develop ties, he said, adding that given numerous capacities of the two countries, the meetings will help promote friendship between them.

Energy diplomacy dominated proceedings at the two-day meeting of Turkic-speaking countries in Istanbul, even though members had ostensibly come to the conference to focus on fostering solidarity in the Turkic world...The energy ministers of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey held three-way talks on Wednesday on the margins of the event about the Caspian region, natural gas pipelines and energy projects...

Cultural diplomacy has certain advantages over traditional diplomacy. Everyone speaks the language of cultural diplomacy. Culture is in everything from the food we eat to the languages we speak.

Baku continues to view the lock on that border as its own success, an outcome of its active and public diplomacy.