Ilham Aliyev: government officials will not be able to withdraw their relatives from the responsibility
According to preliminary version, the cause of the fire in the 16-storey residential building at Azadlig Avenue in Baku is substandard facing of house, which was not fireproof, stated President Ilham Aliyev at a meeting of the state commission to investigate the causes of the fire that killed 15 people.
The head of state instructed the Emergency Situations Ministry and the Mayor's Office to make an examination of buildings, lined with similar materials in the case of the establishment of poor quality, to dismantle forthwith the cover.
Aliyev gave instructions to provide financial assistance to the families of the dead and wounded, quickly renovate the building, to provide apartments on household items, to restore fire the documents destroyed by fire. Aliyev also touched on the recent detention of representatives of big business.
According to him, the businessmen were arrested on charges of embezzlement of state property.
At the same time, he pointed out that these crimes are committed by family members of high-ranking officials, and then try to evade responsibility. For example, some state officials are trying to take away from the responsibility of their relatives, he said. However, the head of state assured that no one, not one senior official will escape justice. "We have to be responsible. If you have committed a crime, then go and serve punishment," said Aliev.-06D-
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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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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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