Azerbaijan has not been invited officially to the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC), said today in Baku, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. However, Moscow is always glad when its partners are interested in the Eurasian space, he said.
However, at a joint briefing with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan after the talks, Lavrov stressed that Armenia will join the EAEC as part of its UN-recognized borders.
According to him, “integration processes are carried out on the territory of countries entering the Customs Union, and the Nagorno-Karabakh is not such country”.-1606D-
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The United States was deeply disappointed in the recent judgement against Bakhtiyar Hajiyev. We continue to urge Azerbaijan to adhere to its international obligations and commitments and to release those unjustly detained.
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Baku Court for Serious Crimes on 14 January completed the trial of Afiaddin Mammadov, head of the alternative trade union confederation ‘Workers’ Platform’. The court sentenced him to 8 years of imprisonment.
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The United States and Armenia on Tuesday signed an agreement forming a “strategic partnership commission”, which Secretary of State Antony Blinken said marked "a significant milestone" in the relationship between the two countries and will "contribute to a more resilient, a more peaceful, a more secure, a more independent South Caucasus," TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The year 2024 was marked by ‘increased repression and police brutality’ in Azerbaijan. This is stated in the annual report on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan by the human rights organisation ‘Political Prisoners Monitoring Centre’.
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