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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday discussed with EU High Representative Josep Borrell additional ways to hold Russia accountable for its war in Ukraine, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
“Secretary Blinken and High Representative Borrell discussed our shared commitment to support Ukraine and hold Russia accountable for its unjustified war and the resulting global impacts to energy markets and food security,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
The meeting occurred on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Cambodia.
The move came just days after Blinken had a phone call with Russia's Sergei Lavrov, in which he warned the Kremlin against attempts to annex more of Ukraine, stressing that the “world will not recognize annexations” and “will impose additional significant costs on Russia if it moves forward with its plans.”
Both Blinken and Lavrov are currently in Cambodia for the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting, and they will likely seek contact on the sidelines of a meeting, White House National Security Council's John Kirby said on Thursday after U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was sentenced to 9 years in prison on drugs charges in Russia.
Blinken, in his turn, issued a statement Thursday afternoon saying that the release of Brittney Griner is “an absolute priority of mine” and that nothing about Russia's decision "changes our determination that Brittney Griner is wrongfully detained, and we will continue working to bring Brittney and fellow wrongfully detained U.S. citizen Paul Whelan home,”
"We will also continue to press for fair and transparent treatment for all U.S. citizen detainees in Russia," he added. "Russia, and any country engaging in wrongful detention, represents a threat to the safety of everyone traveling, working, and living abroad. The United States opposes this practice everywhere" Blinken noted.
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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