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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan to meet his counterpart, Ilham Aliyev. The meeting, taking place in the territory locked between Armenia and Iran on the border with Turkey, comes just days after Azerbaijan seized the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and was officially intended to launch the construction of a gas pipeline. The two presidents are, however, also due to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh and the opening to Azerbaijanis of Armenia's Zangezur corridor, Turkish media reported. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expresses support for Azerbaijan's military operation in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. "We support the steps taken by Azerbaijan, with whom we act together with the motto of 'one nation, two states', to defend its territorial integrity," Erdogan says. SOUNDBITE
China's top diplomat Wang Yi, who has just taken over as Beijing's foreign affairs minister following the announcement that his predecessor Qin Gang had been sacked, meets with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara ahead of an expected meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After a month without being seen in public, Qin was removed from office by Beijing's top lawmaking body on Tuesday after just 207 days in the job, following weeks of speculation that the former ambassador to the United States and confidant of President Xi Jinping had fallen out of favour. IMAGES
Images of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hosting his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in Moscow. On December 22, Aremania accused Russian peacekeepers of failing to prevent an "illegal blockade" in Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh region which has sparked two wars between the neighbouring nations. IMAGES
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky meets French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna in Kyiv. Colonna is the highest-ranking French official to visit Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.