Lloyd Austin
Washington D.C./15.03.23/Turan: The United States will continue conducting surveillance flights worldwide after an American drone was hit by a Russian warplane over the Black Sea, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
The incident, the first direct collision between U.S. and Russian weapons since the war in Ukraine began, set off a diplomatic row as the Pentagon leaders on Wednesday spoke with their Russian counterparts.
"Now I just got off the phone with my Russian counterpart, Minister Shoigu. And as I've said repeatedly, it's important that great powers be models of transparency and communication," Austin said as he also on the same day hosted a virtual meeting of nations supporting Ukraine against Russia.
"Ukraine matters," Austin told a news conference. "It matters not to just Ukraine or to the United States, it matters to the world"
He went on to add, "This is about the rules based international order. It's about one country's ability to wake up one day and change the borders of its neighbor and annex its neighbor's sovereign territory."
Countries around the world realize how serious this challenge to the status quo is, and they are working together. "And they continue to work hard to ensure that Ukraine gets everything that it needs to be successful. And that'll remain our focus going forward," Austin said.
Alex Raufoglu
Politics
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European observers are creating "distrust" between Baku and Brussels, stated President Ilham Aliyev on Monday during the presentation of credentials by the new Belgian ambassador, Julien de Frepon. Aliyev emphasized that the "binocular diplomacy" of the European monitoring mission is unacceptable and contributes to distrust in Azerbaijan's relations with the European Union. He questioned the necessity of extending the mission and increasing its numbers without consulting Baku.
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Afgan Sadigov, the founder of the Azerbaijani website Azel TV, collapsed in a prison hospital in Georgia while on the 24th day of his hunger strike. His wife, Sevinc Sadigova, reported this, stating that he fell unconscious while trying to drink water and woke up to find doctors around him. Blood tests were taken, but he could not recall how long he had been unconscious.
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The Baku Appeals Court, chaired by Judge Ibrahim Ibrahimli, held a preliminary hearing regarding the case of three foreigners who painted graffiti at a Baku metro depot in March this year
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This year, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson, and Simon Johnson for their research on the differences in national wealth. Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in Istanbul in 1986.
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