Baku / 07.11.18 / Turan: On November 7, President Ilham Aliyev received the EU Special Envoy for the South Caucasus, Toivo Klaar, and members of his delegation,
According to the official report, the visit of Klaar will last two days. It can be assumed that during the visit issues of bilateral cooperation between Baku and Brussels, as well as the situation around the Karabakh settlement will be discussed.
Negotiations on the conclusion of a bilateral agreement between the European Union and Azerbaijan have been going on for more than a year, but this is still far from a concrete decision. -05D-
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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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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