Ronen Kraus
Ronen Kraus, director of the Eurasian department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has been appointed as the Jewish state's new Ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is among 12 new Israeli Ambassadors and Consuls to other countries appointed by Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
‘I am honoured and privileged to be officially appointed as Israel's next Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan,’ Kraus wrote on his social media account X.
George Dick, who is completing his mission as Israel's Ambassador to Azerbaijan, said in an interview with Azerbaijani media that he highly appreciated Azerbaijan's stance of not succumbing to external pressure and not joining the anti-Israel campaign after 7 October 2023.
Azerbaijan is one of the few Muslim countries that maintains strategic and economic ties with Israel.The Israeli Embassy in Baku was opened in 1992, and the Azerbaijani Embassy in Israel in 2023.
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has arrived today on a working visit to the UAE, the website of the head of state reports.
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British MP Jeremy Corbyn raised the issue of scientist Gubad Ibadoglu in Parliament.
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Arrested director of the Institute of Political Management Azer Gasymly sent an appeal to the public from the pre-trial detention centre. It was published on the political scientist's facebook account by his wife.
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Alisahib Kerimov, an activist of the Khazar district branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was detained on January 10 at the Nizami metro station. By the decision of the Yasamal District Court, he was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest for "disobeying the police."
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