The opportunities and benefits of territorial cross-border cooperation between public and civil society organizations in Azerbaijan and Georgia will be the main topic of a Regional Conference on 19 December in Kakheti, Georgia.
In the framework of its Eastern Partnership Territorial Cooperation Programme (EaPTC), the EU promotes and strengthens cross-border relations between regional and local state authorities, communities and civil society organisations to develop joint solutions to common social and economic development challenges in the participating border regions.
The conference, organised by the EU-funded Eastern Partnership Territorial Cooperation Support Programme, has a twofold objective: to inform the wider public on the opportunities and advantages for public and civil society organisations of the regions on both sides of the border that will take part in the Programme, as well as to provide a platform for discussion of priorities and prospects of territorial cooperation at the local level, taking into consideration the specificities and needs of the participating border regions.
Representatives of state actors from Azerbaijan and Georgia, regional and local authorities, civil society organisations and European experts will participate in the event.
The Eastern Partnership Territorial Cooperation Programme (EaPTC) aims to promote and strengthen cross-border cooperation between regional and local state authorities, communities and civil society organisations over developing joint solutions to common social and economic development challenges in the participating border regions. -0-
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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