Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will take part in the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius on 28-29 November, the press service of the European Union. Official Baku has not confirmed the information yet. The summit will be attended by heads of state and government of the 28 members of the EU and the six members of the Eastern Partnership - Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan , Armenia and Belarus.
The EU will be represented by their senior management in the face of Jose Manuel Barroso, Catherine Ashton, Stefan Fule and Martin Schulz.
Signing of a number of bilateral agreements between the EU and members of the Eastern Partnership is expected. However, the main document is Association Agreement.
First Armenia and then Ukraine refused to sign. Georgia is not expressed explicitly, as Moldova. Azerbaijan declared its readiness to sign an agreement on visa facilitation. -16D-
Politics
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The Russian side must apologize for the air defense attack on the Azerbaijani civilian aircraft, said Azerbaijani MP Rasim Musabeyov.
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Azerbaijani government sources have exclusively confirmed to Euronews on Thursday that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Aktau on Wednesday.
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CrashThe Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, has expressed his condolences and deep sadness over the tragic Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan with many fatalities.
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The crash of our plane in Aktau raises several questions that demand answers: 1. Many of the victims of this tragedy were people who previously traveled to the North Caucasus by train or car. These victims might not have existed if Azerbaijan hadn’t kept its land borders closed for several years.
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