A press conference is planned in Baku on Thursday at the formal opening of the mission to observe the 9 October 2013 presidential election in Azerbaijan, deployed by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
Tana de Zulueta, the Head of the OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission, will introduce the role of the mission and its upcoming activities. The election observation mission and the OSCE Office in Baku operate independently, under separate mandates.
Journalists are invited to attend the press conference at 15:00, Thursday, 29 August, at the JW Marriott Hotel. -0-
Politics
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blniken is currently hosting Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers at the Lotte New York Palace hotel, just a few blocks from the UN headquarters, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on the shelling of Azerbaijani positions in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) on September 26.
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Aygun Gumbatova, the wife of PFPA (Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan) member Aghyal Gumbatov, who was convicted on charges of causing harm to a citizen's health, reached out to the Turan agency with a statement about her family's distress.
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Today, the trial of paralyzed activist Famil Khalilov continued at the Baku Serious Crimes Court. During the session, he stated that he is a first-group disabled person but still has not been assigned a social worker for assistance. The judge noted that while the law does not require a social worker to be assigned to an inmate, he would appeal to the leadership of the pretrial detention facility "on humanitarian grounds."
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