Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Georgia discussed the implementation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars" railway. Our relations with Georgia is more than a strategic partnership", said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov at a press conference on Monday after talks with Foreign Minister of Georgia Mikheil Janelidze. Bilateral issues were discussed, as well as the project "Southern Gas Corridor", Mammadyarov said. The status of implementation of transport projects Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, the launch of which will take place this year, was also discussed.
Referring to the situation on delimitation of the Azerbaijani-Georgian border, Mammadyarov said that of the 480 km, 314 km have already been agreed. "We need to speed up the solution of this issue," he said, recalling the imminent arrival in Baku of the working group from Georgia. Part of the border passes through the medieval monastery "David Gareji". The Georgian side asked give it this part in exchange for the equal territory on another site. Baku refuses the exchange. -02D-
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Following statements about Western plots against Azerbaijan and the South Caucasus, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS), has started to warn Central Asian countries of similar threats. Speaking at a meeting of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies of CIS countries in Astana, he claimed that "the West intends to use surviving terrorists from Ukraine to destabilize Eurasia."
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The board meeting of the "Musavat" party took place on October 7. According to the party's press service, the participation of “Musavat” Chairman Isa Gambar and the head of the organization's assembly, Arif Hajili, at the congress of the European Liberal-Democratic Party (ALDE) in Lisbon, Portugal, was highly appreciated, along with their meetings there. The meeting also discussed the socio-political situation in the country. It was noted that the murder of political emigrant Vidadi Iskanderli in France has raised serious concerns within society, and the relevant French authorities were called upon to conduct an objective investigation and find the perpetrators.
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On October 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold separate bilateral meetings with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan before the start of the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS, Yuri Ushakov, an assistant to the Russian president, as reported by the media. According to him, a trilateral meeting has not been scheduled at this time.
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From September 30 to October 6, a total of 73 anti-tank mines, 159 anti-personnel mines, and 415 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) were reported by the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA). According to the agency, an area of 2,945.1 hectares was cleared of mines during the previous week.
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