After the second meeting of the High Level Strategic Cooperation Council of Azerbaijan and Turkey in Gabala in the presence of President Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a signing ceremony was held.
In particular, Aliyev and Erdogan signed the Minutes of the second meeting of the High Level Strategic Cooperation Council.
In addition, the following papers were signed: an intergovernmental agreement on the coordination of search and rescue services, an intergovernmental memorandum of understanding on technical regulations, metrology, standardization and accreditation, a protocol on cooperation between Baku State University and the Institute of Yunus Imre on "Turkic project", a protocol on cooperation between the public broadcasters AzTV and TRT, a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministries of Transport of the two countries on multimodal freight, a memorandum of understanding between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries to exchange diplomats, and an intergovernmental protocol to regulate the activities of the joint venture of seed research. --0--
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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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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