Representatives of ten EU countries - Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Hungary, France, Great Britain, Sweden and others, as well as the EU mission in Baku visited the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) on February 14.
As the regional correspondent of Turan reported, Western diplomats met with the Minister of Justice for Nakhchivan. They also visited the office of the Resource Centre for the Development of Democracy and NGOs to meet with civil society activists: Malahat Nasibova, Ilgar Nasibov, Elman Abbasov Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev and Hasan Shikhaliyev.
During the meeting, issues of human rights defenders, pressure put on them and the socio-political situation in the NAR were discussed. The diplomats also visited relatives of the convicted businessman Muhammad Gurbanov and his son-in-law Nadir Mammadov.
The diplomats also appealed to the Ministry of Justice with a request to meet with the prisoners themselves. -16B-
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