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• EU: Intention is to conclude talks on new agreement with Azerbaijan without delay

  Negotiations towards a comprehensive new agreement between the European Union and Azerbaijan are ongoing and have been conducted on a regular basis both in Baku and Brussels, an EU spokesperson told Trend Sept.10. “Our intention is to conclude negotiations without delay. Both sides have demonstrated a strong commitment to progressing […]

   

• World Press Freedom Day celebrated

  May 3 is celebrated as World Press Freedom Day. In 1993, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, which was the result of the work of the UNESCO General Conference, which in its resolution 1991 on Promoting Press Freedom in the World recognized that […]

   

• Supreme Court Releases Journalist Aziz Orujov

  The Supreme Court chaired by Ali Seyfaliyev decided to release the journalist Aziz Orujov, CEO of the Internet TV channel Canal 13, who was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment. As the lawyer Javad Javadov told Turan, the court dismissed Orujov’s charge under Article 192.2.2 (illegal entrepreneurship) considering that there […]

   

• US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Cekuta to leave his position in late March

  After more than three years as Ambassador to Azerbaijan and a number of decades in the State Department, Ambasssador Cekuta has decided to leave his position in Baku at the end of March and then to retire from the Foreign Service, the U.S. Embassy in Baku told APA on March […]

   

• EU-Azerbaijan comprehensive agreement to be discussed at European Parliament

  The International Trade Committee of the European Parliament will discuss the EU-Azerbaijan Comprehensive Agreement, reads message posted on EP’s website.  Recommendations to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the negotiations on the EU-Azerbaijan Comprehensive Agreement will be presented at a meeting scheduled for January 22. The recommendations will […]

   

• Director of “Channel 13” sentenced to 6 years

  Baku Court for Serious Crimes sentenced Aziz Orujov, director of Internet channel “Channel 13” on Friday. Judge Mirza Khankishiyev found him guilty of illegal business and misappropriation, and convicted for 6 years of imprisonment. Prior to this, the lawyer and Orujov himself had been asked for excuses in connection with […]

   

• Mehman Aliyev released from prison

  Today, the Baku City Yasamal district court changed the measure of restraint in respect of Director of Turan News Agency Mehman Aliyev, his lawyer Fuad Aghayev told APA. Mehman Aliyev was released from custody and placed under house arrest upon his recognizance not to leave the country. Following the trial, […]

   

• OSCE PA President arrives in Azerbaijan

  The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen has arrived in Azerbaijan.   She was welcomed by the Deputy Speaker of the Milli Mejlis, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Bahar Muradova.     It is planned to hold several meetings in Baku.   The visit […]

   

• Council of Europe appoints new head to Baku Office

  Ambassador Zoltan Hernyes has been nominated as the new Head of the Baku Office by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Torbjörn Jaglan, the Council of Europe Baku Office told APA. “Ambassador Dragana Filipovic does indeed leave her post as Head of the Council of Europe Baku Office […]

   

• Court rejects petition to commute sentence of Mehman Aliyev

  An Azerbaijani court on Wednesday considered a petition asking to commute the measure of restraint chosen against the director general of Turan News Agency, Mehman Aliyev, in the form of arrest. The court refused to release Mehman Aliyev on bail.  M.Aliyev is charged under articles № 192.2 (illegal entrepreneurship), 213.1 […]