Autumn Session of PACE Opens in Strasbourg
Baku / 08.10.18 / Turan: The PACE autumn session opened in Strasbourg on October 8. During the session, the winner of the Václav Havel Prize in the field of human rights protection will be announced.
The session will include a debate on the financing of Islam in Europe, migration issues in EU countries, as well as the issue of nuclear and general security in Europe.
During the meeting, the Foreign Minister of Tunisia and the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Croatia, who heads the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, will speak.
Issues concerning Azerbaijan and the South Caucasus region as a whole are not included in the agenda. However, the delegation of Azerbaijan stated that it intends to raise the issue of the Karabakh conflict. -02D-
Politics
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A court in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan has sentenced blogger Azamat Sarsenov to a 10-day detention for filming the crash site of an Embraer 190 passenger plane in Aktau. The ruling was confirmed by the court's press service, according to reports from RBC.
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The families of those killed in the crash of the AZAL passenger plane “Embrayer-190” will be paid compensation in the amount of 40 thousand manats (about 24 thousand dollars).
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On 26 December, Ramzan Kadyrov awarded his nephew Khamzat Kadurov, who holds the post of secretary of the Chechen Security Council, with the medal "For Services to the Chechen Republic".
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The Russian side must apologize for the air defense attack on the Azerbaijani civilian aircraft, said Azerbaijani MP Rasim Musabeyov.
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