A meeting of the speakers of the Parliaments of Azerbaijan and Armenia will be held in Geneva
A meeting of the speakers of the Parliaments of Azerbaijan and Armenia will be held in Geneva
The delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take part in the meeting of the Committee for the preparation of the VI World Congress of Presidents of Parliaments on May 15-18. Within the framework of this event, Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alain Simonyan will meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahiba Gafarova, the press service of the Armenian Parliament. Official Baku has not yet confirmed the holding of such a meeting.
Politics
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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