Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have launched a 380-kilometer fiber-optic cable across the Caspian Sea with planned capacity of up to 400 terabits per second.
Azerbaijan has created a Digital Communications information system to centralize regulation, oversight and electronic services across telecommunications and postal services.
Azerbaijan’s Central Bank is preparing rules that would require unemployment-insurance coverage to be offered with bank loans, helping borrowers keep up payments after losing a job.
President Ilham Aliyev compared the trial of Armenian separatist leaders in Azerbaijan to the Nuremberg Tribunal and warned that peace with Armenia remains fragile.
The IMF says roads and ports alone will not unlock the Middle Corridor's potential unless countries align customs rules, permits and regulatory procedures.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he wants a peace agreement with Azerbaijan signed and ratified by 2031, but Baku and Yerevan have not announced a joint timetable.
Azerbaijan's chairmanship of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia has been extended for two years, while Laos joined the organization at its Baku summit.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said exchanging enclaves and exclaves with Azerbaijan is one possible way to settle the border issue, though no agreed mechanism has been announced.
Azerbaijan exported 18.4 billion cubic meters of gas in the first nine months of 2026, up 0.5%, even as deliveries to Europe fell 8.5% to 8.6 billion cubic meters.
