Baku/31.05.18/Turan: Issues of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the European Union were the focus of today's meeting of Ilham Aliyev with the commissioner of the European Commission on budget and human resources Gunter Oettinger. The European Commissioner congratulated Aliyev on the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijani People's Republic and the launch of the Southern Gas Corridor Project.
Oettinger called the SGC project the global link between Azerbaijan and the European Union. In his opinion, this project will give impetus to the development of transport and agriculture throughout the region. The sides also touched upon the course of the negotiations between Baku and Brussels on concluding a new partnership agreement. The view was expressed that the treaty would raise issues of cooperation in all areas, including politics, economy and other spheres. -02D-
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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