Due to renovations, the visa section of the French Embassy in Baku will be closed between September 17-21. During this time, applications of citizens will not be considered. This applies both to the owners of conventional as well as diplomatic and service passports, said the French Embassy.
Currently, the date of reception of visa applications shall be no later than in 8 business days. The term of the review of the documents takes a minimum of 5 working days.
Holders of diplomatic and service passports may apply for the appointment of the date of delivery of documents every day from Monday to Friday from 15.00 to 16.00. Consideration of the application takes a minimum of 2 working days.
Given this, the Embassy requests that people planning a trip to countries, where visas are issued by the French Embassy (France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) to consider the ad.
For more information on visas, please visit http://ambafrance-az.org/. -06D-
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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