Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a number of decrees on personnel changes at the diplomatic missions of Azerbaijan in European countries and in international organizations.
The Head of State recalled Arif Mammadov from the post of permanent representative of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Appointed to this position was Yagubov Emin, who prior to this appointment served as Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the EU in Brussels, as well as Ambassador to Belgium.
To those positions appointed was Fuad Iskandarov, former Azerbaijani Ambassador to the Netherlands and representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
As Azerbaijani Ambassador to Netherlands was appointed Mirhamza Efendiyev, who had previously served as Ambassador to Belgium and Greece.
In addition, the President appointed Gabriel Valentin Comanescu Honorary Consul of Azerbaijan in the Romanian city of Сonstanсe. -06D--
Politics
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Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Alexander Bastrykin arrived in Grozny, where he held a meeting on the investigation of the crash of the plane "Azerbaijan Airlines".
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On 28 December, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov.
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On December 28 president of Ukrain called to the president of Azerbaijan İlham Aliyev.
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The preliminary investigation into the case of Russian oligarch and former "state minister" of the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh, Ruben Vardanyan, has been completed. According to a joint statement by the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Security Service of Azerbaijan, Vardanyan has been charged under the following articles of the Azerbaijani Criminal Code: Article 100 (planning or waging aggressive war), Article 107 (deportation or coercion of the population), Article 109 (persecution), Article 112 (deprivation of liberty in violation of international law), Article 113 (torture), Article 114 (mercenary activities), Article 115 (violating laws and customs of war), Article 116 (violating laws and customs of war), Article 214 (terrorism), Article 214-1 (financing terrorism), Article 218 (organization of a criminal community), Article 228 (illegal trafficking in weapons), Article 270-1 (creating threats to aviation safety), Article 278 (violent seizure of power or violent retention of power, violent change of the constitutional order of the state), Article 279 (creation of illegal armed formations), Article 318 (illegal crossing of the Azerbaijani state border).
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