The OSCE will hold a regular monitoring session of the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces on September 13, near the village of Sarychaly Aghdam, the press service of the Defense Ministry said.
From the Azerbaijani side, the field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson, Hristo Hristov and Peter Svedberg, will attend.
From the Armenian side, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman, Andrzej Kasprzyk, and the field assistant, Jiri Aberle, will take part.
The monitoring will be also be attended by the new U.S. co-chair, James Warlick, and his assistant, Jeffrey Hulse. -16D04-
Politics
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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