Baku / 25.04.18 / Turan: Today in Ankara, following the talks between the Presidents of Turkey and Azerbaijan, a package of bilateral documents was signed: Protocol on the results of the meeting of the High-level Strategic Cooperation Council; Working program of the governments of the two countries on measures to protect the environment for 2018-2019; Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Communications of Azerbaijan and the Ministry of Communications of Turkey; on the establishment of cultural centers of the two countries in Turkey and Azerbaijan; memorandum of preferential trade; protocol on the exchange of personnel between the Ministries of Defense of the two countries. -02D-
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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