Baku / 21.05.19 / Turan: The OSCE MG Co-Chairs will visit the region at the end of May, they will visit Armenia, Azerbaijan and Karabakh, the press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Anna Naghdalyan said this at a briefing in Yerevan on Tuesday.
She confirmed that the co-chairs suggested holding a regular meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, without specifying where and when it could take place.
Touching on the proposal of Baku to exchange prisoners on the principle of "all for all", Naghdalyan made it clear that they would not change Dilgam Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev, accused of killing a teenager.
After the latest meeting of the foreign ministers of the two countries in Moscow in April, the parties made statements on humanistic steps. In particular, it meant the exchange of all the prisoners, the organization of mutual trips of journalists. These initiatives were actively supported by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs. -02D-
Politics
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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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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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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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