Baku / 21.04.18 / Turan: Following the approval of Novruz Mammadov as the Prime Minister, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on the new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers on April 21.
First Deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyyubov has retained his post in the new government.
The Vice Premiers Ali Ahmadov and Ali Hasanov, have remained in office. However, the latter has lost the post of head of the State Committee for IDPs, and this post has gone to the Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy, Rovshan Rzayev.
Hajibala Abutalibov, who in the past 17 years headed the Baku Executive Power, has been appointed new Vice Premier.
The new government does not include three former Vice Premiers - Elchin Efendiyev (curated education, science and culture), Abid Sharifov (curated construction) and Ismet Abbasov.
The armed force-related Ministers have kept their positions - Ramil Usubov (Ministry of Internal Affairs), Fikret Mammadov (Ministry of Justice), Zakir Hasanov (Ministry of Defense), Kamaladdin Heydarov (Ministry of Emergencies), Madat Guliyev (State Security Service), Orkhan Sultanov (Foreign Intelligence Service), and Elchin Guliyev (State Border Service).
Elmar Mammadyarov has been appointed Foreign Minister again.
Parviz Shahbazov has retained the post of Energy Minister, Shaheen Mustafayev - Minister of Economy, Ramin Guluzadeh - Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies, Samir Sharifov - Finance Minister, and Mikail Jabbarov - Minister of Taxes.
The Former Deputy Minister of Economy Sahil Babayev has become Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population, replacing Salim Muslimov.
Inam Kerimov, who previously headed the State Agency for Services to Population and Social Innovations, which includes ASAN services, has become the Minister of Agriculture.
Samir Nuriyev, who previously headed the State Agency for Housing Construction has been appointed the Chairman of the State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture.
The posts of Ministers of Education, Culture, Health, Ecology and Natural Resources, Defense Industry, and Youth and Sports, and the Chiefs of State Committees on Work with Religious Structures, Work with the Diaspora, the newly established State Agency for Tourism and a number of other departments have remained vacant. -----06D--
Politics
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Aide to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev is on a visit to Iran, where he met with Adviser to the President of the Islamic Republic Mehdi Sanayi.
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On January 31, the trial of opposition politician Tofig Yagublu continued at the Baku Serious Crimes Court, where the examination of documents resumed. Yagublu pointed out the falsification of the search protocols related to the search at his home. He drew attention to the fact that the protocol stated that on December 14, 2023, at 16:00, the investigator completed the questioning of the "victim" and decided to conduct a search.
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Elvin Zeynalov, a religious activist living in the village of Mashtaga, was detained on January 31 around noon by individuals in plain clothes outside a store near his home. According to his relatives, later in the evening, Zeynalov was brought back home by people in black clothing, who conducted a search. They took Zeynalov's pants from the wardrobe, put marijuana in the pocket, then "seized" the drugs, filmed the video, and then took the activist away again.
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During the winter session of PACE at the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg, a "parallel event" was held on January 30 dedicated to the "alarming human rights crisis in Azerbaijan." The hearings were organized by the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and PACE member, co-chair of the Group of Unified European Left (Group of the Unified European), Spanish parliamentarian Laura Castel Fort.
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