On Thursday the President Ilham Aliyev received the Ambassador of Israel to Azerbaijan, Michael Lavon-Lotem, due to completion of his diplomatic mission in Azerbaijan.
The parties noted successful development of bilateral cooperation and expressed confidence in further deepening relations between Azerbaijan and Israel.
According to the Israeli press, Israel's new ambassador to Azerbaijan will be Rafi Arpaz, Director of First Economic Department of Israeli Foreign Minister (North and South America, Africa.) he has been on diplomatic service for over 20 years, worked in Washington, Sweden, Switzerland and in Côte d'Ivoire. It is expected he will arrive in the country in the end of August.—06D-
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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