In Tbilisi on November 11 opened a two-day conference on Freedom of the Media in the South Caucasus.
The conference is attended by OSCE Special Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, and the Foreign Minister of Georgia Maya Pandzhkidze.
Presentations will be made by Miklos Haraszti - a former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, and Joao Barata - Chief Adviser of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media .
Armenia is represented by Tigran Balayan - Foreign Ministry spokesman and Nune Sargsyan - Managing Director of media initiatives. They will talk about the development of the Armenian media.
Azerbaijan is represented by Vugar Aliyev , Head of Sector for Media Relations of the Presidential Administration and the Turan News Agency Director Mehman Aliyev .
Georgia is represented by a member of parliament Irakli Chikovani and the head of NGO "Media Development Fund" Tamar Horbaladze.
According to the results of the conference, there will be a declaration. Closing remarks will be made by Dunja Mijatovic , OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.
December 12 at the conference will be a master class on the transition to digital broadcasting. The master class is an interactive series of presentations and discussions on the benefits , challenges and the necessary steps in the transition to digital broadcasting in the countries of the South Caucasus.
A report will be made by Andrei Richter, Director of the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. Reports from the countries will be made by:
Koryun Arakelyan, member of the Armenian National Commission on Television and Radio , Fazil Novruzov , adviser to the National Broadcasting Council of Azerbaijan, and Sofia Britanchuk, a member of the National Communications Commission of Georgia. -02D-
Politics
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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