On December 15, in the Milli Majlis was held the 9th session of the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the GUAM. Participants of the event spoke about the role and authority of GUAM, with which want to cooperate many countries and international organizations. According to the vice-speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Valeh Aleskerov, GUAM plays an important role in ensuring regional security. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, in turn, said that GUAM has become an important platform for cooperation among member countries. According to him, GUAM plays an important role in the settlement of the existing conflicts on the territory of the Member States. It should be noted that in recent years official Baku distanced GUAM activities, rather than to participate in them.
• The GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) is an association created in 1997 to strengthen economic and political cooperation between these countries.
• Until 1999, the organization was also part of Uzbekistan.
• After 2008, the meeting of the GUAM member-states at the highest level was not held.--02D-
Politics
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Six journalists from the independent news outlet were arrested on Friday and placed in pretrial detention on Sunday, 8 December. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns these arbitrary detentions, part of a systematic strategy to silence critics of the regime in Azerbaijan, and calls for their immediate release.
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German Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ralph Harlemann expressed his concern about repression against journalists in Azerbaijan.
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During the past night and the morning of 10 December, the Israeli army continued to carry out massive strikes on military facilities on the territory of Syria, foreign media reported.
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Anar Mammadli, the arrested head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Education Centre (EMDEC), sent a message to the public from Baku pre-trial detention centre on the occasion of International Human Rights Day.
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