At today's plenary session of Milli Majlis a bill "The situation of human rights in the United States" was submitted by the non-partisan MP Rovshan Rzayev.
He asked to make a document providing for "sanctions" against US officials, congressmen and organizations for consideration by the relevant committees of Parliament. He explained his initiative as a protest against "double standards."
Parliament Speaker Oktay Asadov instructed to consider the bill in the parliamentary committees on human rights, legal policy and state building issues, international and inter-parliamentary relations.
The bill is the response of Baku on the initiative of the head of the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress Chris Smith that introduced a bill "for the act of democracy in Azerbaijan. This document provides for sanctions against the government of Azerbaijan, if human rights problems in the country are not solved. -16D-
Politics
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On 26 July "Platform III of the Republic" made a statement which drew attention to the unlawful seizure of electronic devices of underage children of the arrested head of this structure Akif Gurbanov.
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From 19 to 26 July, 24 automatic rifles, 1 machine gun, 9 rifles, 28 grenades, 441 shells, 3118 cartridges of different calibre and other ammunition were found in Khankendi, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry reported. During the mentioned period, the police found 1 machine gun, 50 grenades, 7 fuses, 3 shells and 320 cartridges of different calibre in Shusha.
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President Ilham Aliyev has approved by decree the Azerbaijan-Kazakh intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in military intelligence defense sector. The document was signed in Baku on 7 June 2024.
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At the trial of the opposition politician Tofig Yagublu, the statement of Elnur Vaqifoglu, another accused, was heard at the Baku Serious Crimes Court.
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