The ODIHR/ OSCE will send an observation mission for the presidential elections in Azerbaijan in the second half of October. This follows from the ads displayed on the site of the organization, which has begun accepting applications for various positions in a future mission.
In particular, they need the candidates for the posts of director, deputy mission, a political scientist and experts in the field of elections, law, media analyst, and coordinator of long-term observers.
The term of the elected candidates will be eight weeks and another three weeks, if there is a need for a second round. The candidates may be citizens of the OSCE countries, with the exception of Azerbaijan, to leave for Azerbaijan in August. Deadline for applications is August 4. –06D--
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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