On 16 July at 15:00 pm 15 hours after the attempted coup d'etat in Turkey, the site of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev posted in Azerbaijani and Russian languages a letter of support to Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "With great concern and regret I watched the events in Turkey last night, the events associated with the coup attempt. This is a monstrous crime, on the one hand, against the state of Turkey, on the other - against the Turkish people's will and choice.
The Azerbaijani people and the state which is are always close to the Turkish people and the Turkish state, strongly condemns, and considers unacceptable a crime against the Constitution and the democracy in Turkey. I am sure that in the result of decisive measures to prevent the coup attempt, the unity of the people and government of Turkey, the situation in the brotherly country will stabilized in a short time.
Dear Brother, on behalf of the people of Azerbaijan and on my own behalf I express my deep condolences to the families of the martyrs who gave their lives in the name of suppressing the coup attempt, I wish a speedy recovery to the injured, Turan agency quotes word for word the letter.
Politics
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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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