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-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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