Базель.ГУАМ.5.12.2014
Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM) has decided to change the official language of the organization from Russian to English, said on Twitter, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin. "I have fingered presidency in GUAM. It is necessary to fill it with new content. I offered to conduct meetings in English, rather than Russian. All supported ," wrote Klimkin.
"A GUAM Secretary General immediately showed that Cyrillic was not installed on his computer. Therefore, all, as they say, on the same page,» added Klimkin.
The microblog of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported that the meeting of the GUAM is held on December 5 in Basel (Switzerland.)
The Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, GUAM, was created in 1997 by Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova (from 1999 to 2005, the organization was also part of Uzbekistan.)- 0—
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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