Porto, Portugal 30.06.2025 In an unprecedented action of protest Porto, Portugal 30.06.2025 Azerbaijan has canceled all cultural events planned by Russian state and private institutions. The decision has been taken in condemnation of the killings of Azerbaijani citizens during police raids in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, the officials in Baku said. There are reports…
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N.Karabakh: EU condemns escalation
Brussels 19.09.2023 “The European Union condemns the military escalation along the Line of Contact and in other locations in Karabakh. The EU deplores the loss of lives brought by the escalation. We call for the immediate cessation of hostilities and for Azerbaijan to stop the current military activities” reads the statement by the EU top…
Baku clarifies position towards MEPs
Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement attributed to the spokesperson Leyla Abdullayeva who commented on the information of the European Parliament declining to send an observer mission to Azerbaijan for the parliamentary elections, news Agency Trend reports. MFA talks European Parliament's statement regarding parliamentary elections in #Azerbaijan https://t.co/w61Yke4I7J — Trend News Agency (@trend_en)…
Baku’ assaults regime critics
The courts of Azerbaijan condemned at least 25 journalists and political activists to long prison terms in politically motivated, unfair trials in 2017, Human Rights Watch concluded in its World Report 2018. https://twitter.com/steveswerdlow/status/954279619322171392 Azerbaijan laws and regulations for nongovernmental organizations created a frame, making impossible for independent groups to fund and carry out their work. Harassment,…
EU urges Baku to respect freedom of speech
“The six-year sentence handed down to Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli in Azerbaijan by a court in Balakan on 12 January poses serious questions as regards the exercise of fundamental rights including the freedom of expression and media and due process of law in Azerbaijan, ” – says the statement by the spokesperson of the European External…
EU on Azerbaijan’s abduction of a journalist
“The alleged abduction and illegal arbitrary detention of Azerbaijani nationals, including human rights defenders, residing in Georgia followed by their arrest and prosecution in Azerbaijan, demands swift, thorough and transparent investigation.” – says the statement of the European External Actions Service. Statement on reported abduction & illegal detention of #Azerbaijan nationals residing in #Georgia https://t.co/HTwAw5TnEt…
Aliyeva from First Lady to First vice-president of Azerbaijan
This week Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev appointed his wife Mehriban as the first vice president of the country — the person next in line in the nation’s power hierarchy. Ilham Aliyev, 55 named his wife Mehriban, 52, to the position created after a constitutional referendum in September. Mehriban, who married her husband when she was…
US-Russia military chiefs to meet in Baku
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford and Chief of Russia’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov will hold a meeting on Thursday, 16 February 2017, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the Pentagon’s press office reported on Wednesday. According to the press office, Gerasimov and Dunford “will discuss a variety of issues including the current…
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