The Azerbaijani leadership has not yet expressed its attitude to the supply of the missile system Iskander to Armenia, although more than a week has passed since its demonstration at the parade in Yerevan.
The Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan say nothing and refuse to give a comment. In the meantime, a couple of pro-government deputies expressed a kind of “anxiety” and “confusion” with these actions of Moscow.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, which keenly and operatively follows the visits of foreign journalists and deputies to Karabakh, regularly updating their blacklist, this time shows strange “indifference” and seems speechless.
Strangely silent are also representatives of the Presidential Administration Novruz Mammadov and Ali Hasanov, who have a ready-made set of accusations against the West for criticizing human rights violations.
Of the officials a comment followed only by the Minister of Defense Industry Yaver Jamalov as saying that Iskander is an old system, although instead of that he had better say nothing. -02B-
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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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