President Ilham Aliyev received Francois Oka, the President of French ASTRIUM company, and Jean-Pierre Talimoni, the Director of International Relations of European Aeronautic Defense.
According the president’s site, Pascal Monnier, the French Ambassador to Azerbaijan, who participated in the meeting, praised the launch into orbit of the first artificial satellite of Azerbaijan, and said that Paris would continue to support the space program in Azerbaijan.
Francois Ok reported about the projects implemented by ASTRIUM, one of the largest companies in Europe.
Qualifying the launch into orbit of the first artificial satellite of Azerbaijan as the beginning of a new stage in the development of space industry in Azerbaijan, Aliyev expressed his gratitude for the support of the French companies. He hopes that the cooperation in the field of information and communication technology and space technology will continue.—06D-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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