Vedant Patel
Washignton on Tuesday reiterated that it "remains committed" to promoting a secure, stable, democratic, prosperous, and peaceful future for the South Caucasus region, as the State Department put it, TURAN's U.S. correspondent reports.
"... And we urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to intensify their diplomatic engagement and achieve a comprehensive peace agreement," Department's principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a daily press briefing in response to TURAN's questions regarding the upcoming Brussels dialogue.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in the EU capital today for talks mediated by the European Council chief Charles Michel.
Washington recently made it clear that it supports the Brussels process, while engaging bilaterally, with like-minded partners, to facilitate direct dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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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