Mukhtar Babayev at a reception with Emmanuel Macron
Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, President of the COP29 climate conference Mukhtar Babayev took part in Paris at the conference: “High-level COP29 – IEA (International Energy Agency) Dialogue on Energy Transition.”
At this meeting, an initiative for environmentally friendly cooking for African countries was supported.
The heads of the delegations participating in the “Clean Cooking Summit for Africa”, including the president of COP29, were received at the Elysee Palace by French President Emmanuel Macron, the French Embassy in Azerbaijan reported.
Macron himself also shared a post about the meeting. The French president took a photo with the summit participants. The Azerbaijani minister did not refuse a photo with Macron.
Politics
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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