Warsaw NATO summit demonstrated the strength of the Alliance and its commitment to develop relationships with partners, said on Wednesday the Romanian Ambassador in Baku Daniel Cristian Ciobanu at the event dedicated to the results of the NATO summit. Embassy of Romania, as NATO coordinator in Azerbaijan, organized an event with the participation of representatives of academia, civil society, as well as the embassies of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance and its partners. Romanian ambassador called the results of the summit "successful." He noted that the summit communiqué pointed out that NATO will maintain an independent and sovereign choice of its partners in foreign policy and security.
Referring to the Alliance's relations with Azerbaijan, Ciobanu stressed that NATO attaches to these relations of strategic importance, calling Azerbaijan a reliable partner of the Alliance. He reminded that NATO supports the territorial integrity and independence of Azerbaijan. Romania, for its part, actively contributes to the deepening of relations of Baku with NATO.
During the meeting the sides exchanged views on prospects of relations between Azerbaijan and NATO, reception of new members to the alliance, the role of the organization in providing security on the European continent. -06D-
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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