Baku / 27.09.18 / Turan: On September 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is on a working visit to Baku, will participate in the 9th Russian-Azerbaijani interregional forum and hold talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, the website of the Russian President www.kremlin.ru reports.
Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev will address the plenary session of the Russian-Azerbaijani interregional forum organized by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation jointly with the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan with the support of the Roskongress Foundation.
Among the participants and speakers of the forum, there are the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin, the Minister of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev, extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors of the two countries, heads of regions, representatives of the business community and experts. The forum is aimed at developing trade-economic and humanitarian ties between the regions of Russia and Azerbaijan. -02D-
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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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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