Jalina Porter
Washington on Friday said that the world cannot deal with Russia's Vladimir Putin as before after Indonesia invited him -- as well as Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky -- to November's Group of 20 summit.
“The United States continues to believe that it can’t be business as usual with regards to Russia’s participation with the international community or international institutions,” State Department deputy spokesperson, Jalina Porter said in response to TURAN's question during the Department's daily press briefing.
She indicated that Indonesia, as the G20 President, is responsible for all the invitations. The deputy spokesperson did not however comment on whether the U.S. would still attend the summit on the resort island of Bali.
Jakarta, which might maintain the G20 summit this year, had been under heavy stress to exclude Russia due to its unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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