On 22 June the President Ilham Aliyev met with the newly elected president of Latvia Raimonds Vejonis , sparingly reported the website of Azerbaijani President. The sides expressed readiness to develop bilateral relations. The official statement says nothing about the status and purpose of the visit. There is nothing about the visit and on the website of the Latvian president and the Latvian media.
The former defense minister Raimonds Vejonis was elected a president by the Seim of Latvia on June 3. On 1 July he will finish 1st half-year presidency of Latvia in the European Union and report on the activities of the Chair.
A significant event in this period was the Riga summit "Eastern Partnership." It was expected to sign an agreement "on strategic modernization" between the EU and Azerbaijan. However, Ilham Aliyev evaded participation in the summit, and sent there Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
According to Western diplomatic sources, Mamedyarov took to Riga a document with unforeseen amendments. Despite the fact that they were adopted, Mammadyarov left the summit before the end, which caused disapproval of the EU.
Earlier, on June 12 the former president of Latvia, Valdis Zatlers, who established good personal relationships with President Aliyev visited Baku. Formally, he came to participate in the official opening ceremony of the first European Games. -0-
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On 4 February, the Baku Court of Appeal released former Russian judge Yelena Khakhaleva, who was arrested in Azerbaijan at the request of the Russian Prosecutor's Office.
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Afgan Sadygov, the head of the Azerbaijani website Azel.TV, who has been on a dry hunger strike since February 2 in the Tbilisi detention center, lost consciousness on Tuesday evening, his wife Sevinc Sadygova told Turan.
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On February 5, a preparatory hearing was held in the Baku Court for Serious Crimes, chaired by Vugar Ibrahimov, in the case of former diplomat Emin Ibrahimov. The main hearings are scheduled for February 12.
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The report on the investigation into the AZAL plane crash, published by the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan, is "preliminary and does not contain conclusions about the causes of the incident," a message from “Rosaviatsiya” – the Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia. “Rosaviatsiya” noted that the work of the commission will continue, and conclusions about the incident will be presented in the final report.
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