Baku / 20.12.17 / Turan: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Movlut Cavusoglu. During the meeting, Aliyev stressed the importance of the trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran held in Baku today in terms of strengthening cooperation. Touching upon the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, the head of state appreciated this as an important event not only regional but also international. At the meeting, the importance of the successful TANAP project was underlined.
Today, the Iranian President also received Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif. During the conversation, an exchange of views took place on the prospects for ties between the two countries in the banking, energy, transport, trade and investment sectors. -0--
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On September 18, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with a delegation led by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Joshua Huck. The meeting focused on issues of bilateral and multilateral cooperation, the regional situation in the post-conflict period, and the prospects for normalizing relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Despite efforts to create a positive dynamic in bilateral relations and cooperation prospects, biased opinions from certain U.S. officials negatively impact our bilateral relations," the statement noted.
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Dozens of international human rights organizations have sent a letter to Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Perri to urge him not to ratify the powers of the Azerbaijani delegation in PACE due to increasing repression following the presidential elections on February 7 and the parliamentary elections on September 1, 2024, which have led to unprecedented repression.
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On September 19, Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade will travel to Russia to participate in the XX International Muslim Forum. The event, themed "The Path to Peace: Dialogue as the Basis for Harmonious Coexistence," will take place in Moscow on September 21. The visit is at the invitation of the Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin.
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Economist and PhD candidate at Istanbul University Fazil Gasimov has been on a hunger strike for 97 days at the Penitentiary Service Medical Facility. On September 17, he was visited by representatives from the Baku office of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to his lawyer Rovshan Rahimli. The lawyer stated that the Penitentiary Service is applying pressure on Gasimov to end his hunger strike.
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