Ilham Aliyev receives visitors to the Seventn Global Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations
President Ilham Aliyev received heads of several delegations that have arrived in Baku to attend the Seventh Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations.
In particular, the President received the head of the Senate of Kazakhstan Kasymhomarta Tokayev, Speaker of the Parliament of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich, President of the Association of Friends of Azerbaijan in France, a deputy of the National Assembly and Minister Francois Manshel and the Tolerance Minister of the UAE Sheikh Lubna al Gassimi.-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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