On 23 September Ilham Aliyev chaired the first meeting of the Organizing Committee of the IV Islamic Solidarity Games to be held in Baku in 2017.
"The Islamic Games will once again demonstrate Azerbaijan as a country with great prestige in the world," he said and recalled that a few days ago he signed a decree on the establishment of the Organizing Committee of the Games, and the appointment of his wife Mehriban Aliyeva as the head of the Committee.
Mehriban Aliyeva headed the organizing committees of Eurovision and the European Games, which were held at a high level, he said, recalling that in 2016 Baku will also receive the race Formula-1 and the World Chess Olympiad.
In her speech, Mehriban Aliyeva expressed gratitude to her husband for the trust, expressing confidence that the Islamic Solidarity Games will be held at a high level and will justify the confidence of the Azerbaijani people.
"The Islamic Solidarity Games will enter the history of independent Azerbaijan as another victory," she promised. -06D--
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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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