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Baku / 09.07.19 / Turan: President of the Council of the European Union Donald Tusk arrived on a visit to Azerbaijan on Tuesday, July 9.
In Baku, he held talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and will visit the Baku International Sea Port.
The negotiation agenda includes bilateral cooperation and the expansion of regional cooperation.
The sides will also discuss the Eastern Partnership program, in which Azerbaijan has been participating since 2008. The program provides for a significant increase in the level of political interaction, wide integration of the former Soviet republics into the EU economy and an increase in the amount of financial assistance provided to them, RIA Novosti reports.
Tusk arrived in Baku from Kiev, on July 10 he will be in Yerevan, and from there he will go to Batumi, where an international high-level conference devoted to the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership will take place on July 11-12.
Tusk has already visited Azerbaijan within the framework of a regional visit to the South Caucasus countries from July 20-22, 2015. - 0-
Politics
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Ilham Aliyev congratulated Irakli Kobakhidze on the victory of the Georgian Dream party in the elections and wished him continued success. "The victory of your party is of particular significance for the entire South Caucasus, making it a more stable region, and we rejoice in this victory as your friends and brothers. We wish your government new successes in its work," said Aliyev during a joint briefing following talks and the signing of bilateral documents.
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On January 17, the Khatai District Court of Baku rejected the requests for house arrest for journalists Aynur Elgünesh and Natig Djavadly, employees of Meydan TV, their lawyers, Elchin Sadigov and Zibeyda Sadigova reported to Turan news agency. According to the lawyers, there are no legal or procedural grounds for keeping the journalists in detention. The journalists themselves stated that the criminal case against them had been fabricated to punish them for their professional activities. The defense intends to appeal the court's refusal to transfer the journalists to house arrest.
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Journalist Farid Ismayilov, who had been under police supervision in connection with the Toplum TV case, was detained on January 17 and brought to the Khatai District Court, his colleagues reported.
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The preliminary investigation in the case of the Toplum TV publication (journalists and activists) is coming to an end, reported Rasul Jafarov, the lawyer of the Institute for Democratic Initiatives, Ruslan Izzatli.
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