The Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov will arrive in Israel next week to participate in an international conference on cyber security. This was reported by the Israeli media that quoted the Foreign Ministry of the country.
The conference of Homeland Security in 2014 will be held in Tel Aviv from November 9 to 12. The event is organized jointly by the ministries of foreign affairs, economy, defense and internal security and a number of other agencies in Israel for already three years.
One of the key matters, which might interest the Azerbaijani minister, is security of energy facilities, in particular oil and gas fields.
Recall that last week a delegation headed by the Minister of the Interior Ramil Usubov visited Israel. The visit took place at the invitation of the Ministry of Defense of Israel. Within two days, the sides discussed issues of expanding ties between the security forces of the two countries and cooperation in the fight against crime.
In September, the Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon visited Baku. It was the first visit of the Minister of Defense of Israel to Azerbaijan. -02D-
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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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