Carl-Julius Cronenberg
Baku/27.10.21/Turan: The Bundestag delegation led by Carl-Julius Cronenberg will pay a visit to Azerbaijan on November 1-2.
The FRG Embassy in Baku told Turan that the purpose of the visit is to select candidates from Azerbaijan to participate in İPS International Parliamentary Fellowship Program.
Within the framework of this program, 120 fellows from 44 countries will get opportunity to get acquainted with the German parliamentary system from 1 March to 31 July 2022.
The program is funded by the Bundestag.-16d-
Politics
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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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