In Basel, Switzerland, December 4 opened a two-day meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the OSCE.
Participants representing 57 member countries and states partners were welcomed by the OSCE Chairman, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Didier Burkhalter.
The Ministerial Council will assess the progress of the previous steps and take decisions on new commitments to ensure the political, military, economic, environmental and human security.
One of the important topics of the meeting will be a crisis that has developed in the European security architecture in connection with the situation in Ukraine.
The central event of the summit is talks between the foreign ministers of Russia and the United States, John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov.
In the press center of the summit the Azerbaijani and Armenian journalists pay more attention to the planned meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov and Edward Nalbandian in the framework of the Minsk peace format. -0-
Politics
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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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