Ilham Aliyev will pay a visit to Pakistan

Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova sent a letter to the Chairman of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, Head of the Federation Council of Russia Valentina Matvienko inviting observers from the assembly to the early parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, which will be held on September 1. "I am confident that the participation of the group of observers from the Assembly will contribute to the further development and deepening of comprehensive relations between Azerbaijan and the IPA CIS," Gafarova said in her letter.

On July 5, the Baku Court of Appeal dismissed the complaint of economist Fazil Gasimov, who has been on hunger strike in jail since June 14, for refusing to be transferred to house arrest, lawyer Rovshana Rahimova told Turan about this. According to her, F.Gasimov, despite his exhausted condition as a result of a long hunger strike, was still able to speak in the court of appeal. He spoke in detail about the lawlessness he encountered during the investigation. F.Gasimov, in particular, reported physical and psychological torture of him after his detention. Gasimov said that the accusations against him with counterfeit money are absurd.

Armenian Parliament Speaker Alain Simonyan stated that there are no delays in signing a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, following a meeting with American senators in Yerevan. "The ball is on Azerbaijan's side in this matter," Simonyan remarked during a briefing.

President Ersin Tatar of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus arrived in the Fuzuli region on July 5 to participate in the unofficial summit of the heads of state of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), set to be held in Shusha.