To the office of Permanent Representative to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the EU was appointed special envoy of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Agshin Mehdiyev. This is stated in the press service of the Foreign Ministry.
He will begin work from December 1, 2015.
Mehdiyev previously headed the Mission of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe (2001-2006) and the United Nations (2006-2014).
Mehdiyev replaced the representative of the OIC in the EU Arif Mamedov, who departed from the diplomatic service of Azerbaijan after the persecution arranged against him because of the critical status in connection with numerous victims of the fire in a high-rise building in Baku. -06D-
Politics
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At the early elections to the Milli Majlis on September 1, 806 people applied to the district election commissions to become candidates for deputies, the head of this structure Mazahir Panahov told at today's meeting of the Central Election Commission (CEC). According to him, the nomination of 532 candidates has already been approved.
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The trial of public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court on Friday. The court heard testimony from the secretary of the Yasamal district court session about the conflict between Hajiyev and the victim Ulviya Muradova (Alovlu) two years ago. He stated that Hajiyev and Muradova insulted each other, and Hajiyev hit her "several times".
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Economist Fazil Gasimov, who is on hunger strike for the 35th day, has been transferred to the medical and sanitary unit of the Baku pre-trial detention center-1, lawyer Rovshana Rahimova told Turan on the afternoon of July 19.
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The Tbilisi-based Institute for the Protection of Rights and Freedoms issued a statement in connection with the ban to Afghan Sadigov, the founder of the Azerbaijani website Azel.tv on travel from Georgia to third countries to the founder of the Azerbaijani website Azel.tv. The statement of the organization, established in 2018 by a group of Azerbaijani political emigrants, notes that Sadigov moved to Georgia in connection with the repression in Azerbaijan against human rights defenders, journalists and opposition activists.
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