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Uruguayan club will refuse from Azerbaijani sponsorship for anti-Armenian demands
A day before the elections of the most important club in Uruguay, all the candidates for the presidency of Peñarol announced that they would refuse a possible sponsorship of Azerbaijan, Prensa Armenia reports. According to the Armenian National Committee of Uruguay, despite their differences all the candidates agree that the discriminatory conditions that Azerbaijan proposed to the Argentine club San Lorenzo…
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Armenian Mission to the OSCE urges Azerbaijan to comply with the norms of international humanitarian law
On November 20 the Mission of Armenia to the OSCE delivered a statement at Permanent Council session regarding the violation of norms of international humanitarian law by Azerbaijan. Referring to the shooting down by the Azerbaijani armed forces of MI-24 helicopter of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army, that was conducting a training flight, the Armenian side informed that Azerbaijan is hindering…
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World
Azerbaijan sets new low for Council of Europe: Human Rights Watch
“Azerbaijan’s six-month chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers comes to an end this week, and not a moment too soon. It can be said without exaggeration that Azerbaijan’s tenure represented an assault on the institution and everything it stands for,” Giorgi Gogia, senior South Caucasus researcher at Human Rights Watch “Azerbaijani leadership spoke out on progressive youth policies,…
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Obama received $7,000 worth gift from Azeri officials in 2013
Top US officials, including President Barack Obama and first lady, appear to have received expensive gifts from Azeri officials last year, according to the State Department’s annual accounting of gifts published in the Federal Register on Tuesday. Elin Suleymanov, Azeri Ambassador to the US, presented President Obama with a large Azerbaijani rug with red, white and blue geometric designs worth $6,560 on…
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Politics
Azerbaijan shoots down Armenian helicopter in Karabakh
The Mi-24 helicopter belonging to the Armed Forces of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was hit as a result of ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side during a training flight at about 13:45. The incident took place at the eastern section of the line of contact between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh, Press Service of the NKR Defense Ministery reports. The rival…
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Misinterpretation leads Azerbaijani diplomacy: Aram Avetisyan
In an op-ed on The Hill’s Congress Blog, Counselor at the Office of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) in the USA Aram Avetisyan has responded to an earlier article by Nasimi Aghayev, Azerbaijan’s consul general to the Western United States. The full text of the article is provided below: “The Oct. 24 op-ed by Nasimi Aghayev on The Hill’s Congress blog, related…
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