Israeli embassies around the world stopped issuing visas due to a conflict with the Ministry of Finance of the country. "Due to the strike, was stopped accepting citizens in the consular department. As an exception will be considered the complaints of citizens related to emergency situations," reads the statement of the Israeli embassy.
The strike began on March 5. For a week diplomats go to work , but all contacts, preparation and organization of visits in Israel and abroad, including visits to the country's leadership have been frozen.
The action began after Israel's Ministry of Finance has not fulfilled the requirements of the Foreign Ministry to improve payment of diplomats. Negotiations between the parties were held for several months, but ended inconclusively in the spring of 2013. In June, the first strike and negotiations resumed.
Once the Finance Ministry failed second round of talks, diplomats resumed strike.
In a statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry Staff Union notes that Israeli diplomats insist on "automatic increase in wages by increasing the cost of living, the termination of a discriminatory tax policy for spouses and children of diplomats."
The Israeli embassy in Baku confirmed Turan agency the act is of unlimited duration and how it will last is unknown. -02D-
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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