On 18 December the President Ilham Aliyev arrived in the Swiss city of Bern, where a meeting with the President of Armenia with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group will take place on 19 December, according to the press service of the head of Azerbaijan. Previously, James Warlick, the US Co-Chair expressed the hope that the meeting will achieve a real step towards the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. In the last two weeks the situation on the line of contact between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces was very intense and was accompanied by shootings with artillery, mortars and armored vehicles. At least 15 people were killed from both sides , and injured even more. Observers hope that the meeting of the Presidents will reduce the tension.-02D-
Politics
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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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