Baku / 05.06.19 / Turan: Thorhildur Sunna, rapporteur of the Council of Europe on political prisoners in Azerbaijan, was unable to visit Azerbaijan this week. The authorities considered the arrival at this time "uncomfortable" because of the holidays.
"Disappointed to have to postpone again my visit to #Azerbaijan to discuss #PoliticalPrisoners with authorities & #CivilSociety. Authorities said the dates had become inconvenient due to a recently announced public holiday. Look forward to visiting in September!" she wrote in her Twitter account on June 4. -02D-
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock held a meeting with representatives of Azerbaijani civil society in the evening of 22 November at the office of Turan news agency.
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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock today as part of her official visit to Baku for COP29.
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Journalist Imran Aliyev, held in the 1st Kurdakhany Detention Center near Baku, ended his hunger strike yesterday, which he had begun on November 18. The head of the website Məclis.info, Aliyev was protesting to demand his release, asserting that there was no criminal offense in his actions.
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Germany is trying to prevent the escalation of the military conflict in Europe and is making efforts to do so. Speaking on November 22 at a press conference in Baku, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock responded to a question about whether Berlin would provide "Taurus" missiles to Kyiv after Russia's use of ballistic missiles against Ukraine. "Therefore, this question cannot be answered with a simple 'yes'," she said.
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