Antony Blinken
Washington D.C./27.09.23/Turan: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged President Ilham Aliyev to commit to broad amnesty, and noted his public commitments to "help build a future for all those in Nagorno-Karabakh based on peace, mutual understanding, and mutual respect," as State Department's Spokesperson Matthew Miller put it, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
Blinken spoke with Aliyev for the third time this month. As TURAN reported yesterday, the two sides have also discussed a potential observer mission in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Blinken called on President Aliyev to "provide assurances to the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh that they can live securely in their homes and that their rights will be protected," Miller said in a readout of the call.
Blinken-Aliyev discussion comes as two high-ranking U.S. officials — acting Assistant Secretary of State Yuri Kim and USAID' Administrator Samantha Power — are currently traveling in the region to survey the aftermath of the fighting.
The move also comes as Armenian diaspora members in the U.S. are planning to target today's second Republican presidential primary in California to draw attention to conflict.
Alex Raufoglu
Politics
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Today, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov received Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General Yakov Blitzstein. The parties discussed various aspects of bilateral relations including in the fields of economy, security, high technology, education, tourism, energy, transport, etc., the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry There was also a broad discussion of the current situation and prospects for cooperation in these areas, as well as the situation in the Gaza Strip.
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The nomination of Elton Mammadov as a candidate for deputy was canceled due to the identification of falsifications in his documents, a member of this structure, Gabil Orujev announced at today's meeting of the CEC. The reason for the proceedings in the Mammadov case was the appeal of a group of voters from the 94th Ujar electoral district, from where E. Mammadov ran. During the inspection, it was revealed that E.Mammadov did not specify apartments with a large area in Baku, non-residential premises in the property declaration. Mammadov's concealment of income as an entrepreneur was also established.
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Free access to the website of the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti lasted for one day – on July 23. After that, he was again blocked on the territory of Azerbaijan. The authorities have not commented on what happened.
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