Baku/27.06.18/Turan: On 27 the Head of State Ilham Aliyev received the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells. Nothing is said about the content of the meeting.
Earlier, the US Embassy in Baku reported that Wells will attend the meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Afghanistan. More than fifty countries and international organizations will attend this meeting to coordinate international efforts to support Afghanistan in its quest for peace and security. The participants will also discuss the preparation of Afghanistan for the parliamentary and presidential elections to be held in the next ten months. On the sidelines of the ICG meeting, Wells will meet with high-ranking officials of the Azerbaijani government. -02D-
Politics
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By 10:00 a.m., voter turnout in the snap parliamentary elections was 9.92%, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan reported.
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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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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