Baku / 09.11.19 / Turan: November 9 is celebrated in Azerbaijan as the National Flag Day. On the occasion of the national holiday, it is not a working day. Since this year's Flag Day is on Saturday, the next non-working day, November 11, will be also a non-working day.
The three-color flag with a crescent and an eight-pointed star as a state symbol was approved on November 9, 1918 by the Azerbaijan People's Republic (1918-20). This flag was valid until April 28, 1920, when Azerbaijan was occupied by Bolshevik Russia.
As a result of the national liberation struggle of the late 1980s and early 1990s, on February 5, 1991, the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan restored the three-color flag as a symbol of the republic.
In accordance with the decree of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, dated November 17, 2009, in memory of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic, November 9 is annually celebrated as National Flag Day.
In 2010, the Flag Square with a flagpole height of 162 m was opened on the southwestern coast of Baku Bay. The Flag Museum was also created there. -0-
Politics
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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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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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