Baku / 31.01.18 / Turan: On Wednesdsy the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received the Azerbaijani delegation headed by Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. Berdimuhamedov noted that the visit of the Azerbaijani delegation to meetings with various structures of Turkmenistan "creates good opportunities for development of cooperation in the field of energy and transport," the press service of the Foreign Ministry said. Mammadyarov noted the role and possibilities of the new Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway in the expansion of transport capabilities of the region. He also stressed that the development of bilateral relations between Ashgabat and Baku, as well as tripartite relations - Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan-Turkey, serve regional cooperation. Representatives of SOCAR, CJSC "Azerbaijan Railways", CJSC "Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company", CJSC "Baku International Sea Trade Port" are also part of the Azerbaijani delegation. -02D-
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Members of the National Preventive Group under the Ombudwosman of Azerbaijan visited journalists and activists in the Baku pre-trial detention center-1, the press service of the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights reports.
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Yesterday, Aliza Bin-Noun, Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, held talks at the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry and the presidential administration. "I held fruitful interministerial consultations with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Fariz Rzayev. Our strong bilateral relations have been thoroughly discussed in search of ways to further develop them.
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The International Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has called for the release of Anar Mammadli and other political prisoners in Azerbaijan. The petition, signed by 30 civil society organizations belonging to the Observatory, calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to drop all charges against Anar Mammadli, stop the persecution of independent voices in the country and unconditionally release all political prisoners.
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On 8 May, the Khatai district court of Baku did not satisfy the petition to transfer well-known human rights defender in the field of elections Anar Mammadli under house arrest. This was reported to Turan by his lawyer Elmar Suleymanov.
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