Hikmet Hajiyev and Mircea Geoană
Baku/18.05.21/Turan: Assistant to the Head of State for Foreign Policy Hikmet Hajiyev held a meeting with NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană in Brussels on 17 May. Details of the meeting were not disclosed.
On the same day, Hajiyev had a meeting with European Commissioner for Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi.
According to Varhelyi's Twitter account at the meeting they discussed cooperation between the European Union and Azerbaijan, providing help to the Karabakh region, the potential of the TAP gas pipeline.-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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