U.S. Embassy Baku is delighted to welcome William R. Gill as our Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM).
DCM Gill is a career member of the Foreign Service and joined the Department of State in 1995. Most recently, he served as a Career Development Officer in the Bureau of Human Resources in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was Acting Director and Deputy Director of Western European Affairs from 2011-2013. Earlier, he served as U.S. Consul in Milan, Italy, from 2007 to 2011, and as U.S. Consul in Beirut, Lebanon, from 2005 to 2007, when he coordinated the evacuation of 15,000 Americans during the July-August 2006 war. His other overseas postings include India and Morocco.
Mr. Gill holds a degree in History from The College of William and Mary. He is a native of Virginia, and his foreign languages are French, Azerbaijani, Italian, and Arabic. -02D-
Politics
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The mother of economist Fazil Gasimov, who is on a hunger strike for the 45th day in prison, appealed to the public on July 28 to help free her son and save him from death.
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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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