Results of Pashinyan-Putin meeting
Yesterday's meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan lasted more than an hour and ended successfully. This was announced by Putin's press secretary Peskov.
The problems in bilateral relations are not acute and are resolved during bilateral contacts, he said.
In turn, the Armenian side has not yet made an official statement on the results of the meeting. At the same time, pro-government resources report that an agreement was reached at the meeting on the withdrawal of Russian border guards not only from Zvartnots airport.They will also be withdrawn from positions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in Syunik, Vayots Dzor, Gegharkunik, Ararat and Tavush. They were introduced there after the Second Karabakh War in 2020.
Politics
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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