Moscow /30.09.13/Turan-ArmInfo: Armenia, as a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is subject to all the provisions of the Charter of the CSTO, and in the event of a military strike, all of them will come into effect, said Sergei Mikheyev, director of the Institute of Caspian Cooperation. He spoke on September 30 at a presentation of the report of the Association of Analytical "CSTO and Security in Eurasia" a RIA Novosti news agency. "Nagorno Karabakh is positioning itself as an independent state, and not as a part of Armenia. As an independent state Nagorno Karabakh is not a member of the Organization, and respectively, the jurisdiction of the Collective Security Treaty Organization does not extend on it," said Mikheyev. -02D-
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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Well-known Georgian activist Samira Bayramova was prevented from leaving the plane in Yerevan. She was on a WAW airline flight bound for Tbilisi, but due to bad weather, the plane made an emergency landing in Yerevan. In a post on her Twitter account, Bayramova (an ethnic Azerbaijani) wrote that border guards told her, "Your nationality is a problem."
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