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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The commander of the Second Army Corps, Lieutenant General Mais Barkhudarov, has been dismissed by the order of the head of state.
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Famil Khalilov, a paralysed activist, disabled activist of the first group, who is on hunger strike for the 55th day in the pre-trial detention center, was awarded a certificate of gratitude for ‘exemplary behaviour’ by the head of the detention centre. Head of the center, Elnur Ismayilov personally handed Khalilov the award, coming to his cell. This was reported by the activist's wife Kichikhanum Khalilov after a telephone conversation with her husband on 6 October.
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Azerbaijan called on Armenia to abandon provocative actions and choose between completing the normalization process or continuing a path of confrontation, after a diplomatic clash at the Francophonie Summit in France earlier this week.
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A group of MPs have appealed to Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov to reconsider relations with the US and denounce defence cooperation agreements.
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