Today the Head of State Ilham Aliyev has received Foreign Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani. During the meeting the sides discussed prospects of bilateral cooperation, and in particular the plans to establish a joint investment fund. The same theme and a number of other promising areas will be discussed in detail at today's meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation, the minister said at a briefing in the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan after the meeting with Elmar Mammadyarov. What will the joint investment fund, its size and the proportion of participants is still unknown. However, it is known that this topic was discussed earlier the Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev with Qatar's Ambassador to Baku Yusif bin Hasan al-Sai. -02D-
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On the evening of February 5, it was reported that journalist Shahnaz Beylargizi had been arrested. She had been a presenter on the Toplum TV channel for several years. After a criminal case was initiated against the channel in March 2024 and nearly all of its staff were arrested, Beylargizi was questioned multiple times. According to relatives, the police conducted a search of her apartment.
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By a presidential decree dated February 5, Mukhtar Babaev has been appointed the presidential representative for climate issues.
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On February 5, President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine. According to the document, the Ministry of Energy has been allocated 1 million US dollars to purchase and send electrical equipment, manufactured in Azerbaijan, to Ukraine.
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The trial of Aziz Orudjev, the head of the online publication Kanal-13, continued on February 5 at the Sabail District Court.
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