{"id":311612,"date":"2026-11-09T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=311612"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:58:52","slug":"shoigu-situation-in-the-south-caucasus-is-improving-thanks-to-the-normalization-of-ties-between-armenia-and-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/311612\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoigu: Situation in the South Caucasus is improving thanks to the normalization of ties between Armenia and Azerbaijan"},"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>The situation in the South Caucasus is showing signs of improvement, driven by the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as Georgia&rsquo;s commitment to protecting its national interests, said Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20261109\/shojgu-2130237852.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The situation in the South Caucasus is trending positively. The normalization process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, along with the practical establishment of peace in the region, is yielding results,&rdquo; Shoigu said at the annual meeting of CIS Security Council secretaries.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that in 2024, the Georgian authorities effectively prevented a coup attempt initiated by the pro-Western Georgian opposition and began pursuing a policy focused on safeguarding the country&rsquo;s national interests.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to emphasize that regional issues must be resolved through political and diplomatic means, without interference from outside powers,&rdquo; Shoigu added.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation in the South Caucasus is showing signs of improvement, driven by the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as Georgia&rsquo;s commitment to protecting its national interests, said Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu, as reported by RIA Novosti. &ldquo;The situation in the South Caucasus is trending positively. The normalization process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":311573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,97,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-georgia-en","category-azerbeijan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311612","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311613,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311612\/revisions\/311613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}