Baku/21.01.22/Turan: On January 24-28, the regular session of PACE will be held in Strasbourg. The agenda of the session includes the issue of violation of the rights of the LGBT community in the countries of the South Caucasus. The report of the Belgian MP Christopher Lacroix contains a separate subsection on the situation with sexual minorities in Azerbaijan. The report will be presented on the 25th.
On January 27, a report by the French MP Andre Gatolin on the forced disappearance of persons in the space of the Council of Europe will be heard. The report contains a reference to the conflict in Karabakh. -02D-
Politics
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A local activist of the Musavat Party, Alikram Khurshidov, was detained in the city of Shirvan last night.
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Erin Robertson, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan, responded to a Voice of America inquiry regarding Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov’s January 16 statement that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will no longer be de jure able to operate in Azerbaijan after June 1, 2024.
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Mark Libby, who is concluding his diplomatic mission in Azerbaijan as the U.S. Ambassador, delivered a final message, which was published on the U.S. Embassy's Facebook page.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Fidan
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