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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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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