Vladimir Putin and Nikol Pashinyan
Baku/05.10.21/Turan: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the nearest future. This was announced yesterday by the Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko in Moscow at a meeting with her Armenian counterpart Alen Simonyan, TASS reports.
V. Matviyenko did not inform about goals of the upcoming meeting. According to unofficial data, holding of a personal meeting between Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev will be discussed at the meeting. -02D-
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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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