The Accounting Chamber Board has summed up inspections of the activity of the Mission of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe. The audit "revealed serious irregularities and shortcomings," reads the information of the Accounting Chamber.
In particular, "no-purpose use of budgetary funds in 2007-2012, an indication of incorrect data, non-compliance with state secrets, and others" were revealed. On the basis of the identified violations it was decided to send the materials to the Prosecutor General, the report said.
However, it is not clear what caused such a late check and why just over this period? Whether the other diplomatic missions of Azerbaijan abroad were checked too?
In the period from 2007-2012 the Head of Mission of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe Arif Mammadov, a diplomat who sharply criticized officials for the fire on May 19, 2015 in Baku, when 15 people died.
After that Mammadov, who served as Chief of Mission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the EU was subjected to persecution by pro-government media. Subsequently, Mammadov resigned, and announced the start of political activity. He currently lives in Europe.-06D—
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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