Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are going to the end of the year to organize a meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has agreed to such a meeting, reporters were told today by Igor Popov, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair of Russia, he said after Aliyev’s meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group. Today, the mediators are leaving for Yerevan to hold a similar meeting with the President of Armenia, and they will make a statement on the results of the visit to the region.
Popov said that mediators expect to arrange a meeting between the two leaders before the end of the year.
Last time the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia met in January 2012 in Sochi.—06D-
Politics
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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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By the order of the head of state, Vusal Aslanov has been appointed Chairman of the Baku Metro CJSC.
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