Germany Offers Semi-Public Apology to Azerbaijan Over Displaying Separatist Flag of the ‘Republic of Artsakh’
Published: 2 April 2025 Author: Stefan Talmon
From 30 March to 2 April 2025, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid the first official visit of a federal president to the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Upon his arrival in Armenia the presidential office posted a story about the visit on the President’s Instagram account. One of the images posted showed the flag of the ‘Republic of Artsakh’. The flag with its horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and orange with a white sideways zig-zag chevron in the fly, which is based on the Armenian tricolour of red, blue and orange, served as the national flag of the Armenian separatist entity that had existed in the Garabakh region of Azerbaijan between 1991 and 2023. In September 2023, Azerbaijan recaptured the Armenian-occupied area and the institutions of the self-declared ‘Republic of Artsakh’ announced their dissolution from 1 January 2024. (more…)