The State Border Service reported for December 2023
Baku/08.01.24/Turan: In December 2023, border guards detained 41 people for violating the state border of Azerbaijan: 20 citizens of Azerbaijan, 6 - Pakistan, 7 - Iran, 3 - India, 2 - Algeria, 1 - Tajikistan, 1 - Georgia and 1 - Turkey. As part of the fight against illegal migration, 22 people were detained who tried to cross the state border with forged documents. 834 people were detained for violating the rules of the border regime, and appropriate measures were taken against them.
As a result of anti-criminal measures, 404 wanted persons were detained and handed over to law enforcement agencies, 419 persons were banned from leaving the country, and 16 persons were banned from entering Azerbaijan.
155 kg of narcotic drugs were withdrawn from circulation. Contraband worth 2 million 357 thousand manats was seized. -0-
Politics
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Head of "Azel.TV website" Afgan Sadygov has not been allowed to fly from Tbilisi to Ankara on 17 July. He was detained at the border and passport control and returned back, he told Turan Agency.
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The Azerbaijani side rejected the Armenian side's proposal for a Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting in London, within the framework of the European Political Community summit. This was announced on July 18 by the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ani Badalyan.
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Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov held a meeting with the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Lemmy within the framework of the European Political Community Summit in Woodstock.
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The Azerbaijani side claims that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan refused to meet with President Ilham Aliyev in London. This was reported to the local media by Azerbaijani Presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev. According to him, the British side proposed to hold a bilateral meeting.
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