Azerbaijani Presidential Aide Hikmet Hajiyev, who is on a visit to Iran, was received by President Masoud Pezeshkian on February 2.
"During the meeting, Hikmet Hajiyev conveyed to the Iranian President an invitation from President Ilham Aliyev to visit Azerbaijan," the Azerbaijani Embassy in Iran said in a statement on the X social network.
During his visit to Iran on February 1-2, Hajiyev met with a number of Iranian officials, including Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, presidential adviser Mehdi Sanaei, Secretary General of the Security Council Aliakbar Ahmedian, and Chairman of the Strategic Council on Foreign Affairs Kamal Kharrazi.
As Hajiyev wrote on the X social network, issues of bilateral relations, regional cooperation, including in the 3+3 format, interaction in regional and international organizations, as well as the implementation of the North-South and Aghbend-Nakhchivan transport projects were discussed during the meetings.
Politics
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Elvin Zeynalov, a religious activist living in the village of Mashtaga, was detained on January 31 around noon by individuals in plain clothes outside a store near his home. According to his relatives, later in the evening, Zeynalov was brought back home by people in black clothing, who conducted a search. They took Zeynalov's pants from the wardrobe, put marijuana in the pocket, then "seized" the drugs, filmed the video, and then took the activist away again.
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Aide to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev is on a visit to Iran, where he met with Adviser to the President of the Islamic Republic Mehdi Sanayi.
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On January 31, the trial of opposition politician Tofig Yagublu continued at the Baku Serious Crimes Court, where the examination of documents resumed. Yagublu pointed out the falsification of the search protocols related to the search at his home. He drew attention to the fact that the protocol stated that on December 14, 2023, at 16:00, the investigator completed the questioning of the "victim" and decided to conduct a search.
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During the winter session of PACE at the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg, a "parallel event" was held on January 30 dedicated to the "alarming human rights crisis in Azerbaijan." The hearings were organized by the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and PACE member, co-chair of the Group of Unified European Left (Group of the Unified European), Spanish parliamentarian Laura Castel Fort.
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