Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
The discussion focused on key issues of the bilateral agenda, including preparations for the Minister’s upcoming official visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan. The parties also reviewed plans for the 10th session of the Georgia-Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Economic Cooperation Commission, set to convene in Baku in the coming days.
The parties reiterated their positive assessment of the wide-ranging strategic partnership between Georgia and Azerbaijan, with a particular focus on successful cooperation in trade, economic, transport, and energy sectors.
The meeting also highlighted the importance of peaceful and stable development in the region. Both parties expressed a strong commitment to further invigorating the exemplary strategic cooperation between Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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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On 13 January, the Baku Court for Serious Crimes sentenced public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev to 10 years of imprisonment.
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