The Council of Europe and the European Union are starting a new joint project in Azerbaijan entitled "Civil Society Dialogue". Presentation of the project will be held at 14:30 at Hilton Hotel on June 2, according to the Council of Europe office in Baku. Claudia Luciani, Director of the Democratic Governance Department of the Council of Europe, Ali Hasanov, the assistant of the president, Togrul Musayev, Deputy Minister of Justice, office Dragana Filippovich, the head of the CE Baku, Malena Mard, head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan, and others will make a speech at the ceremony.
Project Manager CE Eteri Kamarauli will present project, and further discussions will take place.
The attention of the official Baku to cooperate with the structures of the Council of Europe and the EU is growing. Over the past two years the events by the Council of Europe and the EU were attended by ordinary officials, but now the level of representation of the authorities has increased significantly.
So, on the eve of defamation conference within the Council of Europe and the EU project the conference was attended by Assistant to the President Ali Hasanov and Ali Huseynli, chairman of the parliamentary committee. -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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