Narimanov District Court of Baku today announced arrest for a citizen of Switzerland ,Vartan Sirmakes. In order to arrest him and bring him to justice Azerbaijani side appealed to Interpol. Earlier, the Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office appealed to the Swiss with request to bring a citizen of this country Vartan Sirmakes to the criminal prosecution for illegal visit to the occupied territories of the country and an illegal business there. Sirmakes, a co-founder and CEO of "Franck Muller Group", he created a group of persons engaged in illegal economic activities in the occupied Azerbaijani territories. Thus, Sirmakes to promote internationally illegal regime established in the occupied territories took part, without the consent of the relevant state bodies of Azerbaijan, in the opening ceremony of the gold mine in the village of Vejneli fields in Zangilan region, which illegally crossed the state border. The Investigation Department for Serious Crimes of the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit under Articles 318.2 (illegal crossing border of the Azerbaijan Republic), 281.2 (open calls against the state) and 192.2.2 (illegal business) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.-06D--
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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