The Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov held a meeting with the RF Ambassador Vladimir Dorokhin on the case of the blogger Alexander Lapshin extradited from Minsk.
“We have received a note from the Russian and Israeli embassies in this regard. On Thursday-Friday, the Russian Consul will meet with Lapshin in accordance with the Vienna Convention. The embassy will have access to communicate with him. We now solve purely technical details. There are no obstacles,” RIA quoted Mammadyarov.
According to him, the question of the further fate of Lapshin will depend on the investigation. “He is charged under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The final decision will be made by the court,” he stressed. -02D-
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On January 23, the Baku Court of Appeal considered the complaint of Meydan TV journalist Natig Javadli against the refusal to transfer him to house arrest.
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On January 23, the Deputy Commander of the Azerbaijani Ground Forces, Ilgar Latifov, met with a Pakistani delegation headed by the Director General of Military Operations, Abdullah Kashif. The parties discussed the state and prospects for the development of military cooperation between Azerbaijan and Pakistan, as well as the importance of increasing the intensity of joint exercises.
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The announcement of 2025 as the "Year of the Constitution and Sovereignty" in Azerbaijan has sparked rumors and speculation about the government's plans to hold a constitutional referendum this year. Today's statement in the Milli Majlis by the head of the parliamentary committee on human rights and concurrently the director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies, Zahid Oruj, confirmed that these expectations are not groundless.
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As part of the peace process with Azerbaijan, Armenia has proposed solutions to all agenda issues, stated Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of Armenia's Security Council, on January 23. "We are not asking for peace, we are offering peaceful solutions to all existing issues. For the two unresolved points, we have sent proposals and are waiting for a response from the Azerbaijani side. We hope that we will find solutions," Grigoryan said, according to Armenian media. Meanwhile, the press service of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Turan that "negotiations on the text of the peace agreement are ongoing."
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