The European Parliament will take a decision on sending observers for the presidential elections in Azerbaijan in September, said Marjory van den Broeke, the head of the press service of the European Parliament, in his interview with "Radio Azadliq."
He denied the reports of the list of countries where elections will be monitored by MEPs. According to him, there is a list of countries where in the second half of the year will be elections.
"A week ago, members of parliament discussed which countries should be monitored. However, no decision was taken on any country. It can be adopted by the President of the Parliament and the leaders of the political groups in September," said Broeke.
According to him, the decision on election monitoring are accepted twice a year.
Asking the question whether there was a proposal to stop monitoring of elections in Azerbaijan, Broeke gave negative answer.
A member of the Parliament of Azerbaijan, Elkhan Suleymanov, told some media that the European Parliament excluded Azerbaijan from the list of countries in need of monitoring the elections, because the situation in the country is quite democratic.—06D-
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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