On August 9, Azerbaijan and Armenia issued a joint statement saying that the two countries initialled the text of the "Agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia on the Establishment of Peace and Inter-State Relations" on the same day, and the two countries "finally created the conditions for the establishment of good-neighborly relations."
On August 9, US President Donald Trump said that restrictions on defense cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States will be lifted. Trump said that Armenia and Azerbaijan promised to stop fighting "forever". On August 8, a White House spokesperson said that Trump will sign agreements with Armenia and Azerbaijan on energy, technology, economic cooperation, border security, infrastructure and trade.
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.