"The Azerbaijani Embassy in Egypt is working at full strength and normal mode. There are no decisions for their return home. "This was stated by the head of the press service of the Foreign Ministry Elman Abdullayev in connection with the evacuation of several embassies in Cairo because of the sharp deterioration of the situation.
According to him, a few days before the embassy of Azerbaijan appealed to the citizens to take measures for their own security. Measures are taken to check the Azerbaijani citizens who arrived in Egypt with a short trip, Abdullayev said.
According to him, there is no information about Azerbaijani citizens injured during the riots.
Earlier, during the events of the "Arab Spring" in Egypt in 2011, the Azerbaijani Embassy employee Nijat Gojayev died.
The situation in Egypt remains tense. In recent days, during the confrontation between supporters of President Mohammed Mursi and his opponents 7 people were killed and more than 200 injured. -16D04-
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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