U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blniken is slated to meet with Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers this evening at 6:15 PM (Baku time) in New York for peace negotiations, TURAN's U.S. correspondent reports.
Tthe Secretary will bring the ministers together at a New York hotel on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly.
As TURAN reported earlier, this will be Blinken's second trilateral with his Azeri and Armenian counterparts on the U.S. soil in less than three months.
The top diplomats last time came together during the NATO summit in Washington.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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