At a meeting on Wednesday the PACE Monitoring Committee appointed Spanish deputy Agustín Conde a new rapporteur for Azerbaijan, and another Spaniard, Pedro Agramunt. According to the Committee, Conde is a member of the Monitoring Committee and a group of the European People's Party.
A 50-year old Conde was one of the 140 PACE deputies who voted for the resolution on June 23 in Azerbaijan, where the authorities sharply criticized for violations of human rights and democracy.
Reason for Agramunt’sleaving is not reported. However, previously the head of the Monitoring Committee Schennach Stefan said that the speakers are exposed to serious pressure and criticism from all sides.
The second speaker Polish MP Iwiński Tadeusz was also appointed this year instead of the Maltese Debono Grech. -02D-
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday welcomed his first international guest - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House at a critical juncture for the Middle East ceasefire. In a surprise move, the pair unveiled a surprise plan with Trump suggesting that the U.S. could take control of the Gaza Strip, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports from the White House.
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Journalist Shamsad Aga was detained by police during the late hours, his brother Shahid Agayev reported to Voice of America.
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The Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan reacted to the report of the Kazakh side on the crash of AZAL aircraft on 25 December, published on Tuesday 4 February.
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The Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan has published a preliminary report on the investigation of the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer-190 aircraft, which occurred on December 25, 2024, near Aktau. The report is publicly available on the ministry's official website.
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