Mr. Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Energy Union, will travel to Kazakhstan and later to Azerbaijan to meet the President and members of the government on the Southern Gas Corridor 26-28 / 11.
As Turan was told in the EU office in Azerbaijan, the purpose of the visit is to discuss issues related to implementation of the project Southern Gas Corridor.
The negotiations with the Azerbaijani leadership will be held after similar consultations on November 26 in Kazakhstan.
The Southern Gas Corridor involves pumping Azerbaijani gas to Europe through three pipelines - the South Caucasus, TANAP (Trans-Anatolian) and TAP (Trans-Adriatic). -16D-
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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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