The Speaker of Milli Majlis Ogtay Asadov will pay official visit to Turkey on 10-11 March, said the press service of the Parliament. The delegation includes the head of the Azerbaijani-Turkish Inter-Parliamentary Group Ahliman Amiraslanov, deputies Shamsaddin Hajiyev, Agalar Veliyev, Malik Hasanov, Chingiz Ganizade, and the head of the Parliament's Apparatus Safa Mirzayev.
With regard to the objectives of the visit, the report said about Asadov’s negotiations with the chairman of the Turkish Parliament Ismail Kahramanov about the prospects of inter-parliamentary cooperation. As expected, Asadov will be received by the President Erdogan and Prime Minister Davutoglu.--02D-
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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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