December 19-20, Baku will host the fifth session of the Parliamentary Assembly of GUAM.
As the press service of the Azerbaijani Parliament said, this is the most representative meeting of the Assembly in the history of this body.
In addition to the delegations of GUAM - Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, the meeting will include representatives of the Baltic Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Benelux countries, the parliamentary dimension of the process of cooperation in South East Europe, the Visegrad Group and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic states.
The agenda of GUAM PA includes European integration of GUAM, cooperation in the framework of the "Eastern Partnership", the role of inter-parliamentary relations in regional and international security, the development of the energy potential of GUAM and GUAM countries' participation in Europe's energy security, the development of cooperation in the humanitarian and scientific and technical fields. - 03D06 -
Politics
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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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