Baku / 12.10.17 / Turan: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper held a series of talks in Baku on October 12, after which she informed journalists at a briefing. "Our discussions related to new approaches used by the US in Afghanistan and South Asia when deploying peacekeepers," she said.
She noted that she had meetings at the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Border Service and the presidential administration. "I am here to discuss ways to strengthen US-Azerbaijan relations," she said, noting Baku's role in the global fight against terrorism.-03C-
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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