The Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hoshyar Zebari, received at the Baghdad International Airport this morning, February 10, 2014 Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister, Elmar Mammadyarov, and his accompanying delegation The two sides then held a meeting and discussed the bilateral relations.
The parties discussed the possibility of cooperation in the energy sector and the opening of direct air links between Baku and Baghdad.
Today between the Foreign Ministries of the two countries was signed an agreement on visa-free travel of holders of diplomatic passports.
After that Mamedyarov was received by the Iraqi Prime Minister Al Maliki. -16B-
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On 4 February, the Baku Court of Appeal released former Russian judge Yelena Khakhaleva, who was arrested in Azerbaijan at the request of the Russian Prosecutor's Office.
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Afgan Sadygov, the head of the Azerbaijani website Azel.TV, who has been on a dry hunger strike since February 2 in the Tbilisi detention center, lost consciousness on Tuesday evening, his wife Sevinc Sadygova told Turan.
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On February 5, a preparatory hearing was held in the Baku Court for Serious Crimes, chaired by Vugar Ibrahimov, in the case of former diplomat Emin Ibrahimov. The main hearings are scheduled for February 12.
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The report on the investigation into the AZAL plane crash, published by the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan, is "preliminary and does not contain conclusions about the causes of the incident," a message from “Rosaviatsiya” – the Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia. “Rosaviatsiya” noted that the work of the commission will continue, and conclusions about the incident will be presented in the final report.
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