President Ilham Aliyev received Roland Kobia, head of the EU delegation in Baku, on the occasion of completion of Kobia’s diplomatic mission in Azerbaijan.
The meeting focused on the successful development of relations between Azerbaijan and the EU, stressed the importance of mutual high-level visits, according to the website of the President.
Kobia worked in Azerbaijan since 2009.
A Swedish diplomat, Malena Mard, has been appointed the new Head of EU Delegation in Baku.
Previously, Mard was a Director of the Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and also worked in the Swedish missions in St. Petersburg, Brussels and Dhaka. –06D--
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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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