{"id":264092,"date":"2026-05-19T15:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=264092"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:47:50","slug":"hajiyev-says-south-caucasus-should-no-longer-be-region-of-war-and-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/264092\/","title":{"rendered":"Hajiyev says South Caucasus should no longer be region of war and conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Speaking at a special session titled &ldquo;Cities at the Center of Connectivity: Urban Reconstruction and Regional Cooperation,&rdquo; held within the framework of the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13), Azerbaijan&rsquo;s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said that Azerbaijan, located at the crossroads of Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, plays a vital role as a strategic hub for regional energy and trade connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>He said this role is further strengthened by the development of a new transport corridor, a key element of which will be the so-called &ldquo;Zangezur Corridor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As of 2024, the war and conflict have already ended. The South Caucasus should no longer be a space for war and confrontation,&rdquo; Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and head of the Presidential Administration&rsquo;s Foreign Policy Affairs Department, said.<\/p>\n<p>Hajiyev also stated that the Karabakh conflict is now in the past.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at a special session titled &ldquo;Cities at the Center of Connectivity: Urban Reconstruction and Regional Cooperation,&rdquo; held within the framework of the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13), Azerbaijan&rsquo;s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said that Azerbaijan, located at the crossroads of Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, plays a vital role as a strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":264078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,98,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-en","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264093,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264092\/revisions\/264093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}