U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission to Azerbaijan Dereck Hogan visited Guba on September 27.
Mr. Hogan met with Guba Executive Committee Chief Mubariz Agayev, local constituency election commission officials, independent election monitors, and civil society representatives to learn about Guba and the pre-election environment in the region. During his meetings, Mr. Hogan conveyed the U.S. Government's support for free and fair elections in Azerbaijan.
Mr. Hogan also had lunch with local U.S. Peace Corps volunteers and visited a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Azerbaijan Competitiveness and Trade program site at the IKAR-S Cold Storage Facility in Valvala, reads US Embassy press release.-0-
Politics
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Azerbaijani judoka Hidayat Heydarov brought our team the first gold of the Olympic Games in Paris.
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The Georgian Migration Department refused to grant political asylum to Azerbaijani activist Avtandil Mammadov, and the Tbilisi City Court confirmed this decision. This was reported to Turan by Mammadov himself.
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On July 29, the Baku Court of Appeal, chaired by Hasan Ahmedov, rejected a complaint against the arrest of former diplomat Emin Ibrahimov. According to lawyer Bahruz Bayramov, Emin Ibrahimov has been on hunger strike as a sign of illegal arrest for 6 days.
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On July 30, an Azerbaijani delegation headed by Prime Minister Ali Asadov will travel to Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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