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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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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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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Well-known Georgian activist Samira Bayramova was prevented from leaving the plane in Yerevan. She was on a WAW airline flight bound for Tbilisi, but due to bad weather, the plane made an emergency landing in Yerevan. In a post on her Twitter account, Bayramova (an ethnic Azerbaijani) wrote that border guards told her, "Your nationality is a problem."
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